Re: postgres not starting

[Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 18:21 -0600, Azimuddin Mohammed wrote:

Hello,

I am unable to start postgres on one of the server

I am getting below error "HINT: is another postmaster already running on port 5432, if not wait a few seconds and retry"

I checked the processes nothing is running with postgres

 I think the error caused because I removed everything under /data directory before stopping the server.

Can someone help.

kill -9 the old processes. The old postmaster is holding onto the port. And probably some of the old file handles, too, so you might want to re-init the new database cluster after really cleaning up the old one.