On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:34:26 -0700
"Akhtar Yasmin-B05532" <B05532@freescale.com> wrote:
> Even the command pg_ctl -D /home/data/www/pg7/data start
> Does not start the server, I mean the message I get on running the
> command, is:
> postmaster successfully started
O.k. what does the log say?
Joshua D. Drake
>
> But the status still shows,
> pg_ctl: postmaster or postgres is not running
>
> Also when I try to access psql, it gives me the following error..
>
> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:25 PM
> To: Akhtar Yasmin-B05532
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres does not start, gives no error
>
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:19:25 -0700
> "Akhtar Yasmin-B05532" <B05532@freescale.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > It says,
> > pg_ctl: 5432: not found
> > postmaster successfully started
>
> pg_ctl doesn't take a -p argument for the port. -p is reserved for the
> path to the postmaster. Try:
>
> pg_ctl -D /home/data/www/pg7/data start
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
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