On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Adarsh Sharma <adarsh.sharma@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sorry Sir, but I simply followed your steps. I think those are sufficient. > But my server didn't start after these changes. Here are my steps : > > cd /hrd2-p/postgres_data > /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 stop > mkdir -p /opt/pg_xlog > chown -R postgres.postgres /opt/pg_xlog > chmod 700 /opt/pg_xlog > cp -rf pg_xlog/* /opt/pg_xlog > mv pg_xlog pg_xlog_old > ln -s /opt/pg_xlog pg_xlog > /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start > > Starting PostgreSQL 8.4: > waiting for server to > start...............................................................could > not start server > PostgreSQL 8.4 did not start in a timely fashion, please see > /hrd2-p/postgres_data/pg_log/startup.log for details > > uima-server:/hrd2-p/postgres_data # vim > /hrd2-p/postgres_data/pg_log/startup.log > > At this time this log is empty. Also I didn/t make any changes in > postgresql.conf > > I'm using Linux ( Linux uima-server 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp #1 SMP Thu May 17 > 14:00:09 UTC 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ) > and postgres ( Postgres 8.4 ) Without that log file it's pretty much impossible to guess what went wrong. Does your system have SELinux installed? Can it be disabled for testing? Are the files in /hrd2-p/postgres_data owned by the postgres user or someone else? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general