On 06/22/2012 03:19 PM, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
sudo su - _postgres /usr/local/pgsql-9.1/bin/initdb -U postgres -D 
/usr/local/pgsql-9.1/data --encoding=UTF8 --locale=en_US
sudo su - _postgres /usr/local/pgsql-9.1/bin/pg_ctl start -D 
/usr/local/pgsql-9.1/data

Although I don't get an error message, I don't have the feeling that it started the server. There 
is still nothing in the process list, and a normal "psql" results in the same message as 
before "psql: could not connect…"

So sorry for bothering you guys… just being really frustrated now…

If you have any ideas, please let me know… :-)
I just went back to the postgres documentation [1] (actually reading all google 
results on the error message one after the other) and tried out what was said 
there (adapted to my conditions):

sudo -u _postgres /usr/local/pgsql-9.1/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql-9.1/data

and suddenly postgres runs….


You really should be able to use pg_ctl though.

I'm puzzled about why you don't appear to be looking at the server error logs (/usr/local/pgsql-9.1/data/pg_log) during troubleshooting. They're your main source of info.

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Craig Ringer

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