Tom,
>> "# 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"
>
> And? That statement was and remains perfectly correct. We don't use
> pg_ctl to start the postmaster in the Linux initscripts, either.
Then WTF do we have pg_ctl, and why do our docs tell people to use it?
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