Re: Re: And Furthermore. Was: PSQL Working, but PGAccess Not Connecting. - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From: "Christopher Sawtell" <csawtell@xtra.co.nz>
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
> > "David Lloyd-Jones" <david.lloyd-jones@netcom.ca> wrote:
> > > How can this be? Isn't this a contradiction of some sort?
> > Contradiction. so what else is new?
>
> I get that situation too. There is something strangely amiss with the
pg_ctrl
> script. I just do not use it.
>

Dunno about that: I was starting up with Lamar Owen's postgresql start|stop
script, so the pg_ctrl thing doesn't apply, does  it?

See Tom Lane's plausible explanation a couple of days ago in this thread.
                                                Cheers,
                                                       -dlj.