Re: General: Unable to start the postgresql after copying postgresql.log

Dear sir/mam,
May I know why this cause. I simply doing the copying the log alone.
But why postgresql not get started.
Which causes this issue.

Regards,
Neelaveni

On Wednesday 10 October 2018 07:29 PM, Pavan Teja wrote:
> Hi neela,
>
> In this case, you can delete the postmaster.pid file and try to
> restart the Postgresql database.
>
> I hope it might start. Kindly acknowledge for further queries if any.
>
> Regards,
> Pavan,
> 9841380956
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018, 7:26 PM neela <neelat100(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:neelat100(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>
>
> Dear sir/mam,
> I'm using postgresql 9.4.6 version.
> I've copied the postgresql.log as postgresql.log_bk.
> While copying the postgresql.log, I've restarted the
> postgresql process.
> Then the process got failed and I've got the following error,
>
> psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket "//tmp//.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>
> And then I've check with log, it gives the result as follow,
> FATAL: pre-existing shared memory block is still in use
> HINT: If you're sure there are no old server processes still
> running,
> remove the shared memory block or just delete the file
> "postmaster.pid".
>
> After that unable to restart the postgresql, it always fails.
> After rebooting it gets succeed and truncating postmaster.pid
> gets succeed.
> Kindly help me how to fix this.
>
> --
> with regards,
> Neelaveni
>