[Dspace-tech] Postgres won't work after violent shutdown

Hi all I've been on this problem for two days! Would seriously appreciate some suggestions. My server went down unexpectedly, and since restarting, the Postgres db won't come back on. I'm running PostgreSQL8.1 on Windows Server 2003 with DSpace 1.4.2 I'm getting various error messages:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Postgres won't work after violent shutdown

juuventud wrote: Hi all I've been on this problem for two days! Would seriously appreciate some suggestions. My server went down unexpectedly, and since restarting, the Postgres db won't come back on. I'm running PostgreSQL8.1 on Windows Server 2003 with DSpace 1.4.2 I'm getting various

Re: [Dspace-tech] Postgres won't work after violent shutdown

Thanks Mr Havercamp I've been trying to switch the service on by all the methods I can think of, but in Services it just goes on and then off again immediately. Postgres.exe is not in the Task Manager's list of Processes. My Server IP has not changed and the postgresql.conf is set to listen

Re: [Dspace-tech] Postgres won't work after violent shutdown

Hi, I also have bad experience of using postgresql under windows. It is less stable than running in unix/linux. I would suggest: 1. Look into your event log to discover why postgres could not start. Then fix it accordingly. 2. If you cannot fix it, back up the data directory and then