On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> This is OK and expected. But then it continues (in the logfile) with:
>
> FATAL: lock file "postmaster.pid" already exists
> HINT: Is another postmaster (PID 20519) running in data directory
> "/var/data1/pg_stuff/pg_installations/pgsql.vanilla_1/data"?
>
> So, complaints about the *other* instance. It doesn't happen once a successful start (with pg_ctl
> start) has happened.
I'm guessing that leftover postmaster.pid contents might be
responsible for this?
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