krichter722(at)aol(dot)de writes:
> The logging of fatal errors when running postgresql as a service on debian
> based systems, like Ubuntu, has a wrong default value. Without going into
> details of the underlying error, I'll just give the following example:
> invoking <code>sudo service postgresql start</code> gives the output
> <output>Error: Invalid data directory</code>.
This is a packaging problem which you should take up with the Debian
folk.
regards, tom lane