On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 18:21 -0600, Azimuddin Mohammed wrote: > Hello, > I am unable to start postgres on one of the server > I am getting below error "HINT: is another postmaster already running > on port 5432, if not wait a few seconds and retry" > I checked the processes nothing is running with postgres > > I think the error caused because I removed everything under /data > directory before stopping the server. > Can someone help. > >
kill -9 the old processes. The old postmaster is holding onto the port. And probably some of the old file handles, too, so you might want to re-init the new database cluster after really cleaning up the old one.
