| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | ashley <ashley(at)SITCAS(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: starting postmaster |
| Date: | 2001-01-15 06:09:23 |
| Message-ID: | 21401.979538963@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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ashley <ashley(at)SITCAS(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> postmaster appears aas a symbolic link that dosen't work
Why not? It's important to have a working postmaster link,
so you can't just blow this off.
> then tried
> nohup postgres -D /user/local/pgsql/data </dev/null >>server.log 2>>1 &
> postgres does not know where to find the database system data.
You can't just substitute postgres for postmaster --- yes, they're the
same executable, but the behavior is different depending on which name
you invoke it by. You do need a working postmaster link.
regards, tom lane
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