Re: BUG #6664: Postgres server process does not come up in foreground and parent process is set to init ( PID 1 ) - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Hi Tom,

You are right. That worked. I feel it is a documentation bug as with the
default settings, executing the provided command would not start the server
in foreground mode.

The default setting for silent_mode is on is what I have seen.

Regards
Karthik


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> karthik.jcecs@gmail.com writes:
> > As per the documentation by default postgres server should run in
> > foreground. I am referring to this link -
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/server-start.html
> > But what I have observed is, it is not happening and the command returns
> > immediately.  Below is the transcript -
>
> Is it possible you've got silent_mode enabled in postgresql.conf?
> That's the only thing I can think of that would make it do that.
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>