Re: We should Axe /contrib/start-scripts

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Tom,
>> (Personally, I use scripts based on start-scripts/osx/ for a number of
>> services on my own machines, so if there's something wrong with them
>> I'd definitely like to know what it is.)

> I quote:

> "# What to use to start up the postmaster (we do NOT use pg_ctl for this,
> # as it adds no value and can cause the postmaster to misrecognize a stale
> # lock file)
> DAEMON="$prefix/bin/postmaster"

And?  That statement was and remains perfectly correct.  We don't use
pg_ctl to start the postmaster in the Linux initscripts, either.
        regards, tom lane