Re: It's dead and won't get up!!

"KUCHARSKI, DAVID R." wrote:
  >the man page suggested
  >#nohup postmaster >logfile2>1  &
  >
  >from a google search they suggested going to the control tab of linuxconf
  >and trying to restart the service there.  NO LUCK that way.
  >
  >when I try:
  >#su postgres
  >$ postmaster
  >
  >I get the following:
  >/usr/bin/postmaster doesn't know where to find database system data.  You
  >must specify the directory that contains the database system either by
  >specifying the -D invocation option or by setting the PGDATA environment
  >variable.

You would do better to use "su - postgres" so as to load the login
environment for postges, which ought to define PGDATA.  If it still doesn't
work you can use -D as suggested by the error message.


As to your original problem, have you perhaps run short of disk space?
WAL now creates its files in 16Mb chunks; see if there is anything
about that in your log files.

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