"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> Actually, a second thought given that I was just bitten by the
> run-tests-as-admin-doesn't-work - should we use pg_ctl to start it?
No, not unless you'd like to break pg_regress's ability to kill the
postmaster --- we need the postmaster to be the direct child process.
regards, tom lane