The postmaster.pid file shows the pid of the postmaster. The file
shouldn't exist when the postmaster isn't running, so it should be
safe to delete. Its presence does indicate that postgres was
improperly shutdown though.
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Peter Geoghegan http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development
On 04/14/11 1:01 AM, Daron Ryan wrote:
Problem: Cannot start Postgres
Platform: Postgres 8.3, Windows Vista Home
Error Message: pg_ctl: invalid data in PID file "C:/Program
Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/data/postmaster.pid"
I run postgres on Windows Vista Home Edition. It normally runs as a
service b
