"Carlos Oliva" <carlos@pbsinet.com> writes:
> I got this in standard out. I also included the output in a text file
I don't see the complaint anywhere in there, though?
Also, it looks like this failed because postmaster was already running.
You probably need to stop the postmaster and then try the sh -x.
Don't forget to pipe both stdout and stderr into the same file, eg
sh -x /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start >mylog 2>&1
regards, tom lane