ashley <ashley@SITCAS.com.au> writes:
> postmaster appears aas a symbolic link that dosen't work
Why not? It's important to have a working postmaster link,
so you can't just blow this off.
> then tried
> nohup postgres -D /user/local/pgsql/data </dev/null >>server.log 2>>1 &
> postgres does not know where to find the database system data.
You can't just substitute postgres for postmaster --- yes, they're the
same executable, but the behavior is different depending on which name
you invoke it by. You do need a working postmaster link.
regards, tom lane