From: "Christopher Sawtell" <[email protected]>
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
> > "David Lloyd-Jones" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > How can this be? Isn't this a contradiction of some sort?
> > Contradiction. so what else is new?
>
> I get that situation too. There is something strangely amiss with the
pg_ctrl
> script. I just do not use it.
>
Dunno about that: I was starting up with Lamar Owen's postgresql start|stop
script, so the pg_ctrl thing doesn't apply, does it?
See Tom Lane's plausible explanation a couple of days ago in this thread.
Cheers,
-dlj.
