Thread: Postmaster loses bash shell command prompt?

Greetings;

Trying to follow the directions in the PostGreSQL book, but for
starting postmaster in FreeBSD.  When running postmaster though, it
says something about now being in production mode, but also loses
(???) the bash shell command prompt to run anything else, including
psql or X & pgaccess!  Hope it's simple enough for someone to
explain!!!

Thank you and have a great day,

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> Trying to follow the directions in the PostGreSQL book, but for
> starting postmaster in FreeBSD. When running postmaster though, it
> says something about now being in production mode, but also loses
> (???) the bash shell command prompt to run anything else, including
> psql or X & pgaccess! Hope it's simple enough for someone to
> explain!!!

The postmaster does not disconnect from the console it is run from.  By
default its standard output is used for logging.  To force it into the
background you need to run it in the 'background'.  In bash this means
putting an & at the end of the command line.

Here is the line from my system startup scripts that I use to start it:
su - postgres -c "postmaster -i -B 1024 -N 256 -o -S2048 >>/var/log/postgres
2>&1 &" > /dev/null 2>&1 &