Re: starting postgres on red hat

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:57 -0700, Marc Fromm wrote:
> When I check that it is all running with ps command I get:
> 324 pts/1 S 0:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
>
> When I did the same setps in fedora 8 the postmaster was started on a
> port
> 1703 ? S 0:01 /usr/bin/postmaster -p 5432
> -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
>
> Why is there no -p 5432 on the red hat box?

I may be wrong, but IIRC PostgreSQL started listening to localhost:5432
by default as of 8.2 . Fedora 8 ships with 8.2, that may be the reason
that you see -p 5432 there.

Regards,
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