Jeff Waugh, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, clued me in...
I was mis-reading this:
> If you're sure there are no old backends still running,
> remove the shared memory block with ipcrm(1), or just
> delete "/var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid".
I was trying to delete the pid in the above file, it no longer existed,
instead of deleting the file itself. Deleting the file
"/var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid" itself did the trick.
Thank you to Jeff.
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