Re: Postgres does not start, gives no error

"Akhtar Yasmin-B05532" <B05532@freescale.com> writes:
> The log says,
> postmaster successfully started

That's not the postmaster's log, that's just pg_ctl saying it managed
to find and exec the postmaster.  I speculate that you are sending
the log to /dev/null which is why you cannot find out anything
about what's wrong.

You might try invoking the postmaster manually:

    postmaster -D whateveritwas

which should let the error message come out on your terminal.

            regards, tom lane

PS: please don't top post.