We are running PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 platforms that are deployed worldwide. In our most recent release, we started using a Java tool called IZPack to install and start up our application, including PostgreSQL. We are finding that we need to slow down this Java tool as it installs our application, since it appears the tool does not wait for each step in the install script to complete before executing the next step. This is affecting a successful install of PostgreSQL. QUESTION: what are the few last steps that PostgreSQL does when it starts up? I am looking for things that I can check to be sure it has completed installation (from a script) before allowing the script to proceed to the next step, like: - opening a socket - creating a PID file - etc.
