2009/10/5 Markus Wollny <markus.wol...@computec.de> > Hi! > > pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org wrote: > > Unfortunately there is nothing anywhere telling me what the > > problem is. The log file is empty, there is nothing in the > > /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog either. The only output > > I get is this. > > > > * Starting PostgreSQL 8.3 database server > > * The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output. > > What can I do to figure out why it won't start? > > > Was it a minor-release upgrade? (i.e. 8.3.1 to 8.3.7 and not 8.2. to 8.3) If not, you would have needed to do a complete dump and restore of your data.
To force a log file, try pg_ctl start -l /path/to/logfile You might as well use /tmp/pg.log for the logfile for diagnosis. This should tell you what the problem is. Thom
