"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> "Nic Ferrier" wrote:
>>>> - the postmaster was being started without nohup
> If postmaster is being started by init, it should not need nohup, because
> init never exits and postmaster is not going to get shutdown unexpectedly.
On the other hand, when pg_ctl is invoked by hand, it probably is a bug
that it fails to use nohup. Perhaps this is a reason why pg_ctl should
not be made into a substitute for a startup script?
regards, tom lane