Markus Bertheau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Guess what happend here:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] pg80]$ bin/pg_ctl -D data -l log start
> postmaster starting
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] pg80]$
> No, postmaster was not starting - it was configured to listen on the
> default port - and there was already another postmaster running on 5432.
> This information was of course in the log file, but pg_ctl should have
> said that the postmaster did not start successfully.
It did not say that the postmaster had started; it said it was starting,
which was true. If you want it to wait around to verify whether the
postmaster started OK, use the -w switch.
regards, tom lane
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