On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 5:12 AM Chatterjee, Shibayan <shibayan.chatterjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For sure there's all the necessary files in '/data/postgresql/data'. The startup process cannot read it, because of sym link. > Executing init-db return the below message: > I suspect this could be a systemd problem. What if you try to manually start the postgres instance? pg_ctl -D /data/postgresql/data start What happens then? > >>>> # sudo postgresql-setup initdb > Data directory is not empty! This is of course to prevent you to destroy your system. I would remove the link, create it to an empty directory and then initdb such directory as if it is your new database. I imagine that would start, in such case your data directory is wrong. Can you show us the content of /data/postgresql/data? Luca
