Faisal N. Jawdat wrote: > If I use psql on a local database while the daemon is coming online, psql > hangs and most be killed. Subsequent psql processes will connect without > incident.
This is strange. When the postmaster is not ready to receive connections, psql is supposed to die with an error message stating so. It should not hang under no circumstances. Can you get a backtrace of the hung psql process? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster