Cannot start postgres

[birgit]

Hi

Does anybody know what this error message means?

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02.12.11 11:55:26   com.apple.launchd[1]   (org.postgresql.postgres[323]) getpwnam("postgres") failed
02.12.11 11:55:26   com.apple.launchd[1]   (org.postgresql.postgres[323]) Exited with exit code: 1

Thanks and regards

[ROCLASI]

Hi Birgit,

I believe this means that the system user 'postgres' doesn't exist.
Launchd tries to launch PostgreSQL under that system user.
Did you perhaps copy over an PostgreSQL installation instead of using an installer ?

[birgit]

Hi Robert

Thank you for your answer!

I actually did install Servoy 6 together with postgres (at the Camp). And did remove it again. My original prostgres installation is under /urs/local.

Last week my java installation did break and I updated to 1.6.0_29. Servoy was useless with this version. So I had to reinstall os and java. I thought, I might have lost a postgres configuration during these update processes? How can I create the user postgres without running postgres processes?

Best regards

[birgit]

Hi Robert

I did reinstall postgres. Thanks for answering.

Kind regards