Re: How to check whether PostgreSQL server is up and running?

Ok let's to create a cluster for you, be sure the pg8 directory owned by
postgres user and the directory is empty.

[postgres(at)callisto]$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/postgresql-8.3.7/pg8 -U
postgres -W

Type your password if they ask, wait initdb process until finish.

And try the server:
[postgres(at)callisto]$ pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/postgresql-8.3.7/pg8 start

enter to database postgres with user postgres and type your password
[postgres(at)callisto]$ psql postgres postgres -W

Tell me if this not work.

Regards
Hidayat

----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Muhammad
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 4:11 PM
Subject: [ADMIN] How to check whether PostgreSQL server is up and running?

Hi,

After having various error message in starting PostgreSQL version
8.2.11; finally uninstalled/deleted it. Now trying my luck on 8.3.7, but
things haven't changed for me.
When I try to check that postmaster server is running or not? I get
the following error:
$ postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
LOG: could not translate host name "localhost", service "5432" to
address: Name or service not known
WARNING: could not create listen socket for "localhost"
FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets
.......................................................................
Similarly when I try to start postgres server with
[postgres(at)callisto postgresql-8.3.7]$ pg_ctl -D pg8 start
postgres cannot access the server configuration file
"/usr/local/pgsql/postgresql-8.3.7/pg8/postgresql.conf": No such file or
directory
server starting

Have no idea what's wrong and where the problem is? Do I need to
change/edit some of Environment variable settings or what? Or should I
reinstall PostgreSQL with Yum?? Or should give up using PostgreSQL and
switch to some other DB like MySQL etc... No idea what to do.....?

Thanks in advance for help.

-Jan Muhammad