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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Gauri Kanekar <meetgaurikanekar@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Server Startup Error
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:29:06 +0000
Message-ID: <45E2E0A2.4070900@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e4ba9550702260522t3e2815em8136be53da6aa3ec@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7e4ba9550702260522t3e2815em8136be53da6aa3ec@mail.gmail.com>

Gauri Kanekar wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> Machine was down due to some hardware problem.
> 
> After then when i issue this command /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -l
> its giving me the following error
> 
> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
>        Is the server running locally and accepting
>        connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
> 
> Can anybody tell me what going wrong??

Well, it's either looking in the wrong place or the server isn't 
actually running.

1. Do your startup scripts start PG?
2. Is there a server process? "ps auxw | grep postgres"
3. What do your logfiles say?

-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd



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