Re: postgres not starting - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alan Hodgson
Subject Re: postgres not starting
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In response to postgres not starting  (Azimuddin Mohammed <azimeiu@gmail.com>)
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Re: postgres not starting
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On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 18:21 -0600, Azimuddin Mohammed wrote:
Hello,
I am unable to start postgres on one of the server
I am getting below error "HINT: is another postmaster already running on port 5432, if not wait a few seconds and retry"
I checked the processes nothing is running with postgres

 I think the error caused because I removed everything under /data directory before stopping the server.
Can someone help.



kill -9 the old processes. The old postmaster is holding onto the port. And probably some of the old file handles, too, so you might want to re-init the new database cluster after really cleaning up the old one.

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