> The man page suggests that nohup is required to init postmaster, I
> know this isn't true but to implement an example init file and not
> match up with the man page seemed foolish.
>
> I guess nohup would stop postmaster doing something awfull if it
> doesn't handle HUP properly but I very much doubt that you guys fail
> to handle HUP.
Good point. postmaster in 7.1 uses HUP signal to re-read
postgresql.conf. It seems we should not use nohup to start postmaster.
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Tatsuo Ishii