Am 12.04.2008 um 03:21 schrieb Kalyan Vaidyanathan:
> Hi,
> Thanks for all the responses. From the event viewer what I got
> was that the service was failing b'cos it thought that the database
> was already and locked by a postmaster.pid file. Just deleting that
> file helped. Now, the service has started and a new postmaster.pid
> file has been created.
> For now, I'm all set, although I'd be curious how I could have
> gotten into this situation.
If PostgreSQL is not told to shutdown then it will not delete the pid
file itself.
Charlie
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