"Akhtar Yasmin-B05532" <B05532@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The log says, > postmaster successfully started That's not the postmaster's log, that's just pg_ctl saying it managed to find and exec the postmaster. I speculate that you are sending the log to /dev/null which is why you cannot find out anything about what's wrong. You might try invoking the postmaster manually: postmaster -D whateveritwas which should let the error message come out on your terminal. regards, tom lane PS: please don't top post.