Rich Shepard <rshepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Tom Lane wrote: >> The "invalid data" bit is interesting though. It looks like pg_ctl would >> produce that error if the pidfile exists but is empty when it looks. This >> seems like a race condition hazard, though the odds of hitting it are >> tiny. What's in the file exactly? > I deleted the .pid, but still could not get the postmaster running. Then I > 'touched' the name so I had an empty file. Made no difference. While pg_ctl > tells me the server is starting, there is no /tmp/.s.PGSQL*, no pidfile, and > no postmaster process. Sounds to me like the postmaster tries to start and fails. Look into the postmaster log. (If the log is going to /dev/null, send it someplace else...) regards, tom lane
