| From: | Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)despammed(dot)com> |
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| To: | PostgreSQL Novice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [despammed] A question about postmaster and postgresql commands |
| Date: | 2005-05-24 08:01:58 |
| Message-ID: | 20050524080158.GF22739@webserv.wug-glas.de |
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am 24.05.2005, um 9:50:56 +0200 mailte Agustín Caminero Herráez folgendes:
> Hi!
> Can anybody tell me what the difference between postmaster and posgresql
> is?
> More accurately, what's the difference between running the following
> commands?
>
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &
It starts the postmaster-process. This is the main process of pg.
>
> and
>
> /etc/init.d/postgresql start
This is a unix-like start/stop - script. You have any other scripts like
this, and you can run this scripts like '/etc/init.d/SCRIPT start' or
with 'stop' as parameter tu start/stop several services in the same way.
Please do a 'less /etc/init.d/postgresql', and you can see how this
script works.
Regards, Andreas
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