> [Mahesh-Ss-Computer:~] ampleuser%
> /Library/PostgresqL/bin/pg_ctl -D
> /users/ampleuser/data -l logfile start
>
> postmaster successfully started
>
>
Postgres will actually be spitting the error to a file called
"logfile", while saying it was successful to STDOUT. Your error is in
there.
Alex
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