Hi I am new to postgresql. I have postgresql 9.2 installed on Red hat linux 6.4 I accidentally deleted data directory this morning (/var/lib/postgresql/9.2/data) I tried to start posgresql 9.2 service service postgresql9.2 start I got a amessage to initialize the db first. so I ran service postgresql-9.2 initdb this was successful then i tried service postgresql-9.2 start this failed. pgstartup.log indicated I can start the database server using: /usr/pgsql-9.2/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data or /usr/pgsql-9.2/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data -l logfile start
However I am unable to start database as root That is the only account I use on this server. I tried su - postgres and then from the bash shell i tried to run these commands (tried one at a time) but it said address in use there are no processes running on 5432. How can I start postgres service? Thanks Thara.
