jean Bousquet <cogilog(at)cogilog(dot)com> writes:
> I did not get any prompt.
You won't --- the postmaster doesn't issue prompts and is not expecting
to read anything from stdin. It's supposed to run in the background.
The most primitive way to launch it is
postmaster ... >somelogfile 2>&1 &
but most people use pg_ctl or a boot-time script to start it.
regards, tom lane