On Monday, August 28, 2023, Vinit Saini <vin...@linecraft.ai> wrote: > The service was running fine, then I restarted the system and service was > not starting. Force service restart says "service started and then > stopped". > In, Event Viewer, I found "pre existing memory block is still in use". > > I have tried restarting the service after deleting postmaster.pid and > posgresql.conf, as suggested at number of places, which I do not > understand > really. > > I have also tried reinstall PostgreSQL on previous data directory, that > also > does not work. > > Can you please help? >
Sounds like the service was already running post-reboot and your attempts to start it correctly failed since it was already running. Your attempts at correcting things likely just made it worse/harder to recover. This is why people like virtual machines - start from scratch with the software and then restore your backups. I have no idea how you’d expect the software to run if you remove its configuration file. You should undo that. David J.
