Gerd Koenig wrote:
> Since even the init-script starts pg as user postgres I have no idea what
> differs from init-script to direct call of pg_ctl as user postgres...?!?!
>
Do you have SELinux turned on? That can do weird stuff like this--the
init script will be running with restrictions the manual pg_ctl launch
will not have. Should be information in /var/log/ somewhere if that's
the case.
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