I managed to get the server started again. It was failing because the permissions on the data folder were not right.

Now, though, I'm back to where I started. There are two postgres users in the pg_shadow table. One of them has a password, the other doesn't, but they both have the same sysid. I tried to delete the one without the password, I couldn't get it deleted.

I tried:

Delete from pg_shadow where ctid = '(0,1)';
DELETE 0

and

Delete from pg_shadow where passwd = '';
DELETE 0



Tom Lane wrote:
Adam Dear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm not seeing the madisoncounty user in there.

Odder and odder.  It might be worth trying "vacuum freeze pg_shadow".

Also, I tried starting the db using /etc/init.d/postgres start, and it fails.

Fails how?  In particular, what shows up in the postmaster log?

Is that the proper way to get the service going, or should I be doing something else?

The usual way to manually start/stop daemons on Linux is

        sudo /sbin/service postgresql start
        sudo /sbin/service postgresql stop

(omitting sudo if you're already root).  I'm not sure offhand if there's
any real difference between that and just calling the init.d script
directly, but I believe that's how you're Supposed To Do It.

                        regards, tom lane




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