Hi
I am new to postgresql. I have postgresql 9.2 installed on Red hat linux 6.4
I accidentally deleted data directory this morning (/var/lib/postgresql/9.2/data)
I tried to start posgresql 9.2 service
service postgresql9.2 start
I got a amessage to initialize the db first.
so I ran service postgresql-9.2 initdb
this was successful
then i tried service postgresql-9.2 start
this failed.
pgstartup.log indicated I can start the database server using:
/usr/pgsql-9.2/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data
or
/usr/pgsql-9.2/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data -l logfile start
However I am unable to start database as root
That is the only account I use on this server.
I tried su - postgres
and then from the bash shell i tried to run these commands (tried one at a time)
but it said address in use
there are no processes running on 5432.
How can I start postgres service?
Thanks
Thara.