Re: Postgres won't start

On 08/08/2013 04:02 PM, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> To start with, it worked but the pg_hba.conf entry appeared to be wrong.
>   I tried changing that and then the current problem started.  I tried
> "listen_addresses = '*'"; then back to just 'localhost'.
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> Since I have maximum logging enabled, I don't think it is getting as far
> as reading the configuration files - that is not mentioned in the log.
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> There is no other instance of postgres running.

Hmmm. Two things, then I am tapped out for the time being:

1) Did you change the pg_hba.conf entry back?

2) What user are you running the pg_ctl command as?

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