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

The default postgres.conf created would have this setting set to "on". I
used the freebsd port to install.

Regards
Karthik


On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> karthik ananth <karthik.jcecs@gmail.com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> No, that has certainly never been the default.
>
> FWIW, we removed that setting entirely as of 9.2.
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>