David wrote:
> david@kepler:/etc/init.d$ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 start
> * Starting PostgreSQL 8.2 database server
> * Error: specified cluster does not exist
> [fail]
>
> and the same error when passing "stop"
>
> The cluster clearly exists and is recognized by pg_ctl. As a result
> PostgreSQL does not start with the system and must be started and
> stopped manually.
I can imagine that you have some unsupported mixture of package
installation and manually created cluster. But it is hard to tell
without more detail.