Re: When starting postgres, it hangs like it is still connected to stdout

> When I start postgres using postgres -D $PGDATA, it hangs, and I see that
> postgres and all the other attendant processes are running, but I never
> get my prompt back.

Don't start PostgreSQL with the 'postgres' command. That's the name of the actual server process. You want to use the
controlscript, normally named pg_ctl. You call it like this: 

pg_ctl -D $PGDATA start

Stop it like this:

pg_ctl -D $PGDATA stop

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