Re: Gotcha!!! Installing PostgreSQL 7.3.1 on windows 2000

Manish,

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:15:38PM -0500, Agrawal, Manish wrote:
> I tried the following just after I sent my last email and it worked:
> $ rm /data/postmaster.pid
>
> I followed with:
> $ pg_ctl start
> postmaster successfully started

I thought of suggesting removing the .pid file, but I thought the error
message for that case was different than what you reported.  In
hindsight, I don't know how I missed the following:

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:08:59PM -0500, Agrawal, Manish wrote:
> $ pg_ctl start
> pg_ctl: Another postmaster may be running. Trying to start postmaster
> anyway.  Found a pre-existing shared memory block (Key 5432001, id 0)
> still in use. If you're sure there are no old backends still running,
> remove the shared memory block with ipcrm(1), or
> just delete "/data/postmaster.pid".
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I apologize for not suggesting the above earlier.

I'm glad that you are up and running.

Jason

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