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> On Feb 14, 2017, at 9:47 PM, Shawn Thomas <thoma...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > No it doesn’t matter if run with sudo, postgres or even root. Debian > actually wraps the command and executes some some initial scripts with > different privileges but ends up making sure that Postgres ends up running > under the postgres user. I get the same output if run with sudo: > > sudo systemctl status postgresql@9.4-main.service -l > Error: could not exec start -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main -l > /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.4-main.log -s -o -c > config_file="/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf” > > Thanks, though. > > - which start Can you run start with -x ?