Re: My Postgresql is inaccessible in Windows 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 08/03/2016 08:47 AM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
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>     Well this looks like the Postgres log and it is showing that you are
>     trying to start Postgres when there is already another instance of
>     Postgres running.
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>     What does the Task Manager show is running?
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>     When I was talking about system logs I meant the OS logs, I was not
>     clear on that point.
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> *> 2016-08-02 17:05:59 BRT LOG:  database system was not properly shut
>> down; automatic recovery in progress
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> <2016-08-03 08:42:39 BRT FATAL:  lock file "postmaster.pid" already exists
>>2016-08-03 08:42:39 BRT TIP: Another postmaster (PID 2968) is running
> under the data directory "C: / Program >Files / PostgreSQL / 9.5 / data"?
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> These errors point to the source of your problem. When the database is
> shutdown imporperly
> (as in pulling the plug or manual power down), you often get left with
> the postmaster.pid file not beeing deleted.

Or Postgres is actually running and doing the below would not be good.

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> So just go ahead and delete /PostgreSQL/9.5/data/postmaster.pid and you
> can then restart the PostgreSQL service.

It is a good idea to verify before deleting.

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