Re: Issue in PG start

On 5/8/21 10:53 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 5/7/21 10:14 PM, sivapostgres@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> PG 11.8 in Windows 10 and currently PG 11.11
>>
>> Yesterday [07th May] morning when we switched on the computer and 
>> subsequently PGAdmin, we got the message following message
>> FATAL: the database system is starting up
>>
>> I uninstalled PG and installed [v 11.11] PG with the same data 
>> directory.  Fortunately it worked even when we switched off /on the 
>> computer for lunch.   NO issues yesterday.
>
> First why switch the computer off for lunch?

If it's a desktop and he's a developer, then that's reasonable.

>
> Second did you stop the Postgres server before shutting down the machine?

Is Windows Postgresql a service?  If so then Windows "should" shut it down 
cleanly when you cleanly power off the machine.

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