Postgresql server will not start

Posted by Claudiu on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Claudiu
Published on 2010-06-10T16:43:54Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 16:54 UTC
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postgresql-8.3

I'm on Windows 7. I restarted my computer. I then tried to connect to the database and got an error. I don't remember which one in particular but it was some connection issue. I decided to try to restart the server, so I clicked on "Restart server" from the start menu. This blocked. After a few minutes I killed the process and tried again, only to get a "The service is starting or stopping. Please try again later." message.

I rebooted the computer again, tried to start again, and got the same error. I killed the pg_ctl process and tried starting it manually, but that didn't work either:

C:\Users\DrClaud>cscript "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\scripts\serverctl.vbs"
 start wait
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


The PostgreSQL Server 8.3 service is starting...................................
.......................................
The PostgreSQL Server 8.3 service could not be started.

The service did not report an error.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534.

The start command returned an error (2)

Any ideas?

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