Re: Unable to start postgresql

On 03/08/2017 10:25 AM, John Iliffe wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 March 2017 11:37:27 Adrian Klaver wrote:
>> On 03/08/2017 07:37 AM, John Iliffe wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 08 March 2017 00:01:32 Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> John Iliffe <john(dot)iliffe(at)iliffe(dot)ca> writes:
>>>>> Now, running as user postgres I try and start as stated in the
>>>>> manual postgres -D /usr/pgsql_tablespaces
>>>>>
>>>>> The result is:
>>>>> [postgres(at)prod04 postgresql-9.6.2]$ postgres -D
>>>>> /usr/pgsql_tablespaces LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Cannot
>>>>> assign requested address HINT: Is another postmaster already
>>>>> running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry.
>>>>> LOG: database system was shut down at 2017-03-07 22:22:57 EST
>>>>> LOG: MultiXact member wraparound protections are now enabled
>>>>> LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
>>>>> LOG: autovacuum launcher started
>>>>
>>>> To clarify: the postmaster *is* starting here. It failed to bind to
>>>> the IPv4 port 5432, but it must have succeeded in binding to at
>>>> least one other port (IPv6 and/or a Unix socket), else it would have
>>>> stopped and you'd have not seen the last four log lines.
>>>>
>>>> It might be helpful to check with lsof to see what the postmaster
>>>> process has open after you do this.
>>>
>>> I noticed that when I deleted the postmaster.pid file as suggested by
>>> another answer and restarted that process issued a lot more messages
>>> before crashing :-( Still couldn't connect to port 5432 though.
>>
>> Meant to ask before, can you show the command you are using to connect?
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> Yes:
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> [postgres(at)prod04 John]$ pg_ctl start -D /usr/pgsql_tablespaces

This is the command to start Postgres.
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> I tried psql but it won't work, as expected, because socket 5432 is not
> available.

So what is the psql connection command you are using and what is the
error message you are getting?

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