Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> writes:
> "Anony Mous" <A(dot)Mous(at)shaw(dot)ca> writes:
>> Should this option not create a postmaster.log file somewhere on my system
>> (it's nowhere to be found)? Apologies in advance if I'm just being stupid.
> Depends on where the start script sends the stderr of the postmaster
> process (or the -l option to 'pg_ctl start'). Some systems send it to
> /dev/null by default.
But in 8.0, see also 'redirect_stderr' and the associated options.
regards, tom lane