On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, paul simdars wrote:
> Some one posted a simple command to start the postmaster. Unfortunately I
> lost it. I looked in the documentation that came with postgres but it is
> not there. Nor in the FAQ that comes with 7.2. They always seem to skip
> the simple stuff. It was something like pg_tcl . . . .
The command is pg_ctl and it's called (at least within the Red Hat SysV
init setup) from within /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql.
If you run that command (or the SuSE, debian, etc. equivalane) with
'start', 'stop' or 'restart' you'll control the postmaster.
Rich
