> Testing this, the problem appears to be that you forgot the > keyword"start", so pg_ctl didn't really do anything.
I am sorry, that was just a mistake on my part here, it is in the script. > I suspect this was left over from some previous attempt. It doesn't look like it. I tried several times, always looked in the log file after that. The timestamp also suggests it was a result of my attempts. > One possible theory is that you had an "include" directive in the config > file in /etc, causing it to try to read the other one? I checked now, no "include" in there. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/Server-tries-to-read-a-different-config-file-than-it-is-supposed-to-tp5850752p5850763.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.