Tim Boring <tboring@insight.rr.com> writes:
> So I shutdown the postmaster and tried restarting like this:
> postmaster -D -i /var/lib/pgsql/data > logfile 2>&1 &
> but it doesn't start the postmaster.
Try putting the switches in a saner order:
postmaster -i -D /var/lib/pgsql/data > logfile 2>&1 &
-D expects a parameter (database path) next.
regards, tom lane
