A question about postmaster and postgresql commands

From: Agustín Caminero Herráez <agustin(at)info-ab(dot)uclm(dot)es>
To: PostgreSQL Novice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: A question about postmaster and postgresql commands
Date: 2005-05-24 07:50:56
Message-ID: 4292DCE0.1060902@info-ab.uclm.es
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Hi!
Can anybody tell me what the difference between postmaster and posgresql is?
More accurately, what's the difference between running the following
commands?

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &

and

/etc/init.d/postgresql start

Thanks a lot in advance!

Agustin

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