https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/unable-to-start-postgres-for-ambari/m-p/154314#M116770 <P>I didn't expected it to work <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span> , just shared because you had issue with pg_ctl start pg_ctl with root.</P><P>can you please check postgres logs on below location and see if there is any clue?</P><P>/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_log</P> Fri, 24 Jun 2016 03:54:58 GMT jyadav 2016-06-24T03:54:58Z