On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 11:44 -0200, Pablo Fulco wrote: > Hi all, im very new to postgres, and im having a problem with postgres 8.1. > > The thing is that the server wont start, when I checked the log it said: > > > > Received fast shutdown request > > Aborting any active transaction > > FATAL: terminating connection due ti administrator command > > FATAL: terminating connection due ti administrator command > > FATAL: terminating connection due ti administrator command > > FATAL: terminating connection due ti administrator command > > FATAL: terminating connection due ti administrator command > > Shutting down > > Database system is shutdown > > Logger shutting down > > > > > > When I log into de pgAdminIII the server appears with a red cross, when I > try to connect it sais "server doesn't listen" > > On the event viewer I have errors that say: > > > > FATAL: syntax error in file c:/program > files/postgresql/8.1/data/postgresql.conf" line 435, near token "MB" > > > > In line 435 of the conf file I have shared_buffers = 256MB > > > > When I check the services running, I have the postgresql server stopped, > when I try to start it it says it started but stopped because it had no work > to do???????? > > > > Any suggestions? I would really appreciate it > You cannot use units in your configuration with the 8.1 release. Units are available with the 8.2 release. -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com PostgreSQL Sessions #3: http://www.postgresql-sessions.org -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general