Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If a second postmaster is started on a data directory and the second one > uses the -S option it will not print a message but simply exit and not > start a background process. The exit status is 0. Since the whole point of -S is to throw away stdout/stderr, I hardly see how you can complain about the fact that the error message went to /dev/null. I agree that zero exit status is not good, however; will see if I can fix that. regards, tom lane