Re: failed to start postgresql service

Gergely Buday <gbuday@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> I created a directory /usr/local/pgsql/data to store the data of
> postgresql and ran
>
> $ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> After that, I tried to start the postgresql service on my fedora 15 box via
>
> $ sudo service postgresql start
>
> but it has failed with the message
>
> Starting postgresql (via systemctl):  Job failed. See system logs and
> 'systemctl status' for details.
>                                                            [FAILED]

Set and export the PGDATA variable in the rc script to the data
dirrectory path and try again.

Or try;

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data start

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