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Old August 19th, 2002, 12:52 AM
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Angry Error during Startup ???
Hi

Now, I get the following error... on startup...

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postmaster does not find the database system.
Expected to find it in the PGDATA directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data",
but unable to open file "/usr/local/pgsql/data/global/pg_control": No such file or directory


How can I rectify this ?

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Old August 19th, 2002, 03:34 AM
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I assume you have just installed this on a server or machine. Have you ran initdb yet? This program creates the database structure for PostgeSQL
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Hi

Thanks for your reply, I've already run initdb.

This was a development database, being used for different projects. Today, I used the postgresql in /etc/init.d to stop it. Normally, I use...
Code:
kill -INT `head -1 /var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`

to stop and
Code:
postmaster -i -D /var/lib/pgsql/data > logfile 2>&1 &

When I wanted to restart I got the FATAL error. (logged in previous post). After this, I got the error listed in this post.

It seems that pg_control file has become corrupt...???

Well, had to create another database and restore from backup.

Still, I'm curious about what caused this problem.

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