On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Akhtar Yasmin-B05532 <B05532@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> exist the file postmaster.pid in your directory? > No the postmaster.pid does not exist in the directory, even when > I start the server, it does not appear, I am assuming, that this file is > present only when postmaster in running. > >> check the log of the OS and the permissions of the directory > /home/data/www/pg7/data > > I cannot check the logs, as we are not logging postgres, also the > directory permissions for > /home/data/www/pg7/data is 700 Can you reconfigure postgresql to log to stderr for a minute and then try to start it in single user mode and see what it says?
