"Philippe Verschooten" <ph.verschooten@pi.be> writes:
> I followed your advice (Andrew Hammond), but I was confronted with another problem: I got no
> prompt �
> [PowerBook06:/usr/local/pgsql] postgres% /opt/local/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> LOG: database system was shut down at 2004-05-18 08:45:19 CEST
> LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/9B2E88
> LOG: redo record is at 0/9B2E88; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
> LOG: next transaction ID: 536; next OID: 17142
> LOG: database system is ready
That's because you left the postmaster running in the foreground. You
would only do that if you want to watch its log messages in a terminal
window for some reason. See the administrator's guide section on
starting the postmaster for the usual ways to do it.
regards, tom lane