On 5/8/21 10:53 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 5/7/21 10:14 PM, sivapostgres@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> PG 11.8 in Windows 10 and currently PG 11.11
>>
>> Yesterday [07th May] morning when we switched on the computer and
>> subsequently PGAdmin, we got the message following message
>> FATAL: the database system is starting up
>>
>> I uninstalled PG and installed [v 11.11] PG with the same data
>> directory. Fortunately it worked even when we switched off /on the
>> computer for lunch. NO issues yesterday.
>
> First why switch the computer off for lunch?
If it's a desktop and he's a developer, then that's reasonable.
>
> Second did you stop the Postgres server before shutting down the machine?
Is Windows Postgresql a service? If so then Windows "should" shut it down
cleanly when you cleanly power off the machine.
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