2014-05-16 11:56 GMT-03:00 Graeme Gemmill <graeme@gemmill.name>:
> $ ./pg_ctl start -D /mnt/post/pgsql/data &
> [1] 3692
> [postgres@localhost bin]$ pg_ctl: could not open PID file
> "/mnt/post/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid": Protocol error
>
> [1]+ Exit 1 ./pg_ctl start -D /mnt/post/pgsql/data
> Is there any advice on running postgresql in a virtual machine connecting to
> host data?
Did you check your logs to see if there was any information which
would point to the problem?
Looks like a libpq - backend server mismatch.
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