Re: What's this mean?

"Robert B. Easter" <reaster@comptechnews.com> writes:
> On Tuesday 12 December 2000 13:46, Sterling wrote:
>> Starting postgresql service: standard in must be a tty    [FAILED]
>>
>> I haven't seen this in any documentation.

> It could be hard to tell without knowing the internals of what the script
> "postgresql" does.

I'm fairly certain that there's no such error message in the Postgres
distribution itself.  It's probably coming out of that startup script
you're using ... why it thinks stdin should be a terminal I dunno,
because Postgres certainly doesn't care.

            regards, tom lane