accidentally deleted data directory

[Thara Vadakkeveedu <tharagv@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I am new to postgresql. I have postgresql 9.2 installed on Red hat linux 6.4

I accidentally deleted data directory this morning (/var/lib/postgresql/9.2/data)

 

I tried to start posgresql 9.2 service

service postgresql9.2 start

 

I got a amessage to initialize the db first.

 

so I ran service postgresql-9.2 initdb

 

this was successful

then i tried service postgresql-9.2 start

this failed.

 

pgstartup.log indicated I can start the database server using:

    /usr/pgsql-9.2/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data
or
    /usr/pgsql-9.2/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data -l logfile start

However I  am unable to start database as root

 

That is the only account I use on this server.

I tried  su - postgres

and then from the bash shell i tried to run these commands (tried one at a time)

but it said address in use

there are no processes running on 5432.

 

How can I start postgres service?

 

Thanks

Thara.