Re: restarting postmaster

"Marc Fromm" <Marc(dot)Fromm(at)wwu(dot)edu> writes:
> My system is Fedora Core 7 running postgresql 8.2.3-2.
> I can shutdown postgres and the postmaster with the single command
> "pg_ctl stop -m smart."

> According to the documentation I can restart the postmaster with "pg_ctl
> start." When I enter pg_ctl start, everything starts except the
> postmaster.
> Checking ps ax | grep post displays 4 postgres processes and no
> postmaster.

One of them is the postmaster.

postmaster and postgres are identical in recent PG releases;
what you're looking at is just a difference between pg_ctl and
the initscript about which name they choose to use.

regards, tom lane