Re: deinstallation - reinstallation on Mac OS 10.4

From: Christoph Heibl <christoph(dot)heibl(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: PostgreSQL Admin <postgres(at)productivitymedia(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: deinstallation - reinstallation on Mac OS 10.4
Date: 2007-07-25 07:43:19
Message-ID: DB30B605-F1CB-4B4C-9063-9940E989FFA7@gmx.net
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> run this in the command line
>
> locate postmaster.pid
> or
> find / -name "postmaster.pid" -print
>
> that should locate any postmaster files and then remove whatever
> looks like the postmaster.pif file

Thank you! I found postmaster.pid in usr/local/pgsql/data. I deleted
the whole pgsql directory and installed postgres again using the
following commands:

./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
sudo chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
su postgres
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

When I then try to start the PosrgreSQL-server via

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

the terminal gets "stuck" (i.e. no prompt appears ) after six lines
of output:

LOG: database system was shut down at 2007-07-25 09:38:00 CEST
LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/42C258
LOG: redo record is at 0/42C258; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
LOG: next transaction ID: 0/593; next OID: 10820
LOG: next MultiXactId: 1; next MultiXactOffset: 0
LOG: database system is ready

There is no explicit error message. What can be wrong?
What directory do I have to cd to in order to execute "/usr/local/
pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data"?
Did I omit an important step?

Thanks for your ideas!
Christoph

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