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Date: Sat, Dec 3, 2011 01:13 AM
To: "Myint"<myint@oneempower.com>;
Cc: "pgsql-admin"<pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>;
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Regarding postgres 9.1 with Redhat Linux
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Myint <myint@oneempower.com> wrote:
> Dear admin,
>
>
>
> We have installed postgres 9.1 rpm package to red hat
> Linux 2.6.18- x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux. After we setup and install
> database we can create data folder on /app/postgres/oe. But when we try to
> start up the database as ./pg_ctl -D /app/postgres/oe start. It was giving
> the following error. Could you please advise how to solve this problem? Or
> should we back up data and re-install everything from begin? The error we
> received as following.
>
>
>
> LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Address already in use
>
> HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a
> few seconds and retry.
>
> WARNING: could not create listen socket for "localhost"
>
> FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets
Sounds like you've already got an old version of pg installed. Either
change the 9.1 install to use a different port, shut down or uninstall
the old version. What does "ps ax|grep postgres" say about other
processes on the machine?
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