Arguile <arguile(at)lucentstudios(dot)com> writes:
> Simplest case to test is:
> pg_ctl start -D /valid/db/dir -l /invalid/dir
> pg_ctl: /invalid/dir: No such file or directory
> postmaster successfully started
> Postmaster hasn't started and the error could probably use some work.
If you don't specify -w then pg_ctl only launches the postmaster,
it does not wait around to see if the postmaster really fired up
sucessfully. If there's a bug here, it's only that -w isn't the
default behavior.
regards, tom lane