Thanh Q Lam wrote:
Hi,

We have a problems with postgresSQL 7.1.3 that suddenly all databases don't work, and it logged the following message,

I'm sure you know that's an old version, but I'll recommend upgrading anyway.

pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
Smart Shutdown request at Fri Jul  8 09:19:47 2005
DEBUG:  shutting down
DEBUG:  database system is shut down


I ran pg_ctl restart/start/stop, nothing works and the error log showed this message,

The same message every time?

simba[postgres][44]% more postmaster.log.994
/rms2/pgsql/bin/postmaster does not find the database system.
   Expected to find it in the PGDATA directory "/nsm/pgsql/data",
but unable to open file "/nsm/pgsql/data/global/pg_control": No such file or directory

Is the file there?
Are the permissions/ownership right?

I tried setenv PGDATA to /nsm/pgsql/data, but it still doesn't work. Then I moved the current data directory to data.bak and ran initdb --pgdata /nsm/pgsql/data to initialized the data cluster and replaced the data.bak with data, but no luck the postgres server still failed starting up.

Did the initdb work?
Was the error message the same?

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

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