Tom,

> (Personally, I use scripts based on start-scripts/osx/ for a number of
> services on my own machines, so if there's something wrong with them
> I'd definitely like to know what it is.)

I quote:

"# What to use to start up the postmaster (we do NOT use pg_ctl for this,
# as it adds no value and can cause the postmaster to misrecognize a stale
# lock file)
DAEMON="$prefix/bin/postmaster"


-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com

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