He's just trying to do what you told him.
But the use of initdb won't correct the problem Igor got. There's something
wrong with his database so that he can't start the postmaster process:
> PANIC: failed to re-find parent key in "23724"
Unfortunately i don't have any idea how to solve this issue :(
-- Matthias
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Enrico
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:22 PM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] can't start postgresql
>
>
>
> > Thanks, but this is not working -
> >
> > [postgres@db ~]$ /usr/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/pgsql/data
> > The files belonging to this database system will be owned
> by user "postgres".
> > This user must also own the server process.
> >
> > The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
> >
> > initdb: directory "/usr/pgsql/data" exists but is not empty
> > If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty
> > the directory "/usr/pgsql/data" or run initdb
> > with an argument other than "/usr/pgsql/data".
>
> of course if want to use /usr/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/pgsql/data
> directory /usr/pgsql/data must be empty and user postgres
> must be the owner,
> but I don't understand, what is your problem?
>
> Enrico
>