| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Philippe Verschooten" <ph(dot)verschooten(at)pi(dot)be> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-novice" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Installing Postgresql 7.4.2 |
| Date: | 2004-05-19 14:50:20 |
| Message-ID: | 16819.1084978220@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Philippe Verschooten" <ph(dot)verschooten(at)pi(dot)be> writes:
> I followed your advice (Andrew Hammond), but I was confronted with another problem: I got no
> prompt
> [PowerBook06:/usr/local/pgsql] postgres% /opt/local/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> LOG: database system was shut down at 2004-05-18 08:45:19 CEST
> LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/9B2E88
> LOG: redo record is at 0/9B2E88; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
> LOG: next transaction ID: 536; next OID: 17142
> LOG: database system is ready
That's because you left the postmaster running in the foreground. You
would only do that if you want to watch its log messages in a terminal
window for some reason. See the administrator's guide section on
starting the postmaster for the usual ways to do it.
regards, tom lane
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