Re: postgresql-[any version] from FreeBSD ports - startup problems after crash

"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> Except that the shell that's running su would be root, not pgsql, at
> least in the case of FreeBSD. The guts of the current port's rc.d file
> are:

> su -l ${postgresql_user} -c "exec ${command} ${command_args} ${rc_arg}"

Yeah, but what's the ${command} ?

If it's pg_ctl then all he's missing is the recent change to check
getppid.  If it's execing postmaster directly then maybe we need
another theory.

            regards, tom lane