Re: starting postgresql for first time

one would have thought this was automatic, or is there a reason somebody would want to run it in the terminal?
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:25:49AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Morgan <robert_(at)ihug(dot)co(dot)nz> writes:
> > AT THIS POINT I DID CTRL+Z AS NOTHING ELSE HAPPENED
>
> You seem to be missing the fundamental concept that you want to start
> the postmaster as a background process. See
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/postmaster-start.html
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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