Re: Need assistance in incremental backup for my environment - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: Need assistance in incremental backup for my environment
Date
Msg-id 20130117213840.108990@gmx.com
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In response to Need assistance in incremental backup for my environment  (Vinod V <vinodv@collabera.com>)
List pgsql-admin
Vinod V wrote:

> Below were the error messages that we were getting ... (while
> restarting the server).
>
>
> 2013-01-10 01:58:46 PST LOG: could not bind IPv6 socket: No error
> 2013-01-10 01:58:46 PST HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and
retry.
> 2013-01-10 01:58:46 PST LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: No error
> 2013-01-10 01:58:46 PST HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and
retry.
> 2013-01-10 01:58:46 PST WARNING: could not create listen socket for "*"
> 2013-01-10 01:58:46 PST FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets

It would appear that something is probably already (or still)
running on port 5432 when you try to start.

-Kevin


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