Re: I am now Linux and PostgreSQL user, have a question - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Isiah Thomas wrote:

> I read some docunment say that to start the postgres service must type this
> command
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgres start

That's pretty specific to RedHat and RedHat-derived systems. (And then,
only if you install PostgreSQL from the RPMs, which if you're using
RedHat, you probably are).

A less distribution-specific way of saying the same thing is

$ service postgres start

But, really, you probably want to do something like

$ pg_ctl


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