On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 00:26 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wonder whether Debian's startup script is doing something that affects
> this? Because it's pretty hard to explain otherwise.
You're probably right and I've reported this there:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D660649
:)
Cheers,
Chris.