Fixing PostgreSQL Services With Clean Install
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 03 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: How To
I recently could not restart a stopped PostgreSQL server on Fedora 7. For some reason the server stopped and would not restart. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Postgres and had the same problems.
I then renamed the data folder (/var/lib/pgsql), reinstalled Posgres, and was able to start the service. A corrupt database or table may [...]