Re: When starting postgres, it hangs like it is still connected to stdout

The initdb command said I could use that command, but pg_ctl works fine
now. I should have tried that before. I have always used pg_ctl in the
past, don't know why I just went with the postgres command.

Thanks,
Susan

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Shaun Thomas <sthomas(at)optionshouse(dot)com>wrote:

> > When I start postgres using postgres -D $PGDATA, it hangs, and I see that
> > postgres and all the other attendant processes are running, but I never
> > get my prompt back.
>
> Don't start PostgreSQL with the 'postgres' command. That's the name of the
> actual server process. You want to use the control script, normally named
> pg_ctl. You call it like this:
>
> pg_ctl -D $PGDATA start
>
> Stop it like this:
>
> pg_ctl -D $PGDATA stop
>
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