I have noticed on linux that if you try to start postmaster via "pg_ctl -w", but the postmaster fails to run (e.g. if you forgot to create PGDATA), it returns a 0 exit code. It needs to return a non-0 exit code if postmaster failed to start, when you are using the "-w" option to wait for it to start.
Thanks, Steve McWilliams ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match