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"
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Josh Berkus
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