karthik ananth <karthik(dot)jcecs(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Hi Tom,
> You are right. That worked. I feel it is a documentation bug as with the
> default settings, executing the provided command would not start the server
> in foreground mode.
> The default setting for silent_mode is on is what I have seen.
No, that has certainly never been the default.
FWIW, we removed that setting entirely as of 9.2.
regards, tom lane