Re: Fw: Re: Could Not Connect To Server - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 4/23/20 1:24 PM, Dummy Account wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> I did find loggin.h and insallation_summary.log.  Neither of which look 
> to include the info you may want.
> Please advise as to what log file you want to see.

Did you look under:

/Library/PostgreSQL/12/data

directory for sub-directory?:

log/

And under it for log files?

> Thanks
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 2:32 PM
> *From:* "Dummy Account" <dummyaccount4u@mail.com>
> *To:* "Adrian Klaver" <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
> *Cc:* "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, "pgsql-general" 
> <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Could Not Connect To Server
> Hey David,
> Can you tell me the exact name of the log file?  Then I can search for it.
> Thanks
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 2:25 PM
> *From:* "Adrian Klaver" <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
> *To:* "Dummy Account" <dummyaccount4u@mail.com>, "David G. Johnston" 
> <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
> *Cc:* "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Could Not Connect To Server
> On 4/23/20 12:12 PM, Dummy Account wrote:
>  > Hi David,
>  > When I backed-up, I don't know if the server was offline?  I can say
>  > that I was not running pgAdmin.  For instance, I backed up the Operating
>  > System and all of its applications.  If I go run other application,
>  > including other servers, they work.  As a matter of fact, if I boot into
>  > the old hard drive while it is outside of the laptop, it still works
>  > just as it did before I took it out of the laptop.
>  > As far as your question of "And the relevant content from the log
>  > directory log file?": what are you asking for?  That *is* the entire and
>  > complete log after that command.
> 
> Those are the messages sent to the screen. There are also messages sent
> to the Postgres server log. Not sure where the OS X install puts that,
> but I would start under /Library/PostgreSQL/12/data.
> 
>  > Thanks, I appreciate the help.
>  > *Sent:* Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 1:55 PM
>  > *From:* "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
>  > *To:* "Dummy Account" <dummyaccount4u@mail.com>
>  > *Cc:* "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
>  > *Subject:* Re: Could Not Connect To Server
>  > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 11:48 AM Dummy Account <dummyaccount4u@mail.com
>  > <mailto:dummyaccount4u@mail.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  > But here they are:
>  >
>  > waiting for server to start....2020-04-22 15:57:51.766 CDT [5255]
>  > LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 12.2 on x86_64-apple-darwin, compiled by
>  > Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.54) (based on LLVM 3.5svn), 64-bit
>  > 2020-04-22 15:57:51.766 CDT [5255] LOG:  listening on IPv6 address
>  > "::", port 5432
>  > 2020-04-22 15:57:51.766 CDT [5255] LOG:  listening on IPv4 address
>  > "0.0.0.0", port 5432
>  > 2020-04-22 15:57:51.768 CDT [5255] LOG:  listening on Unix socket
>  > "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"
>  > 2020-04-22 15:57:51.782 CDT [5255] LOG:  redirecting log output to
>  > logging collector process
>  > 2020-04-22 15:57:51.782 CDT [5255] HINT:  Future log output will
>  > appear in directory "log".
>  >
>  > And the relevant content from the log directory log file?
>  >
>  >  stopped waiting
>  > pg_ctl: could not start server
>  > You might be misunderstanding where I said restore, I did not backup
>  > the database, I restored an Operating System because I changed out
>  > my hard drive for a solid state drive; therefore, I had to restore
>  > my Operating System from Time Machine/(backup).
>  >
>  > And was that Time Machine backup made while the server was offline?  If
>  > not, and you didn't take any explicit steps to backup and restore the
>  > database itself, then your database may be corrupted and thus unable to
>  > boot.  The log file should indicate whether that is the case.
>  > David J.
> 
> 
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian.klaver@aklaver.com


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