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Re: Postmaster hangs until Ctrl-C

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@hwwe.com>
Cc: "pgsql-novice list" <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-04-05T16:09:30Z
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"Tom Brown" <tbrown@hwwe.com> writes:
> When I run postmaster, the system hangs until I Ctrl-C.

Sounds like you're just saying
	postmaster
and not doing anything to put the process into the background.  See
http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/postmaster-start.html

			regards, tom lane