Just a little note of pseudo humor.
We could not postmaster (pg version 7.0.3) and I could not figure out why. I
checked directory permissions, all that. It kept complaining that it could not
create the pid file.
I did not understand why it would not work. I grepped through all the postgres
source to find that this error could also be due to an inability to write the
pid file.
I checked the disk space, of which there was none. Doh! I should have just done
a "df" at the start.
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