On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 12:32 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Lane Van Ingen wrote: > > Forgot about 'pg_ctl status'. That will work fine for my needs. > > > > Ray Stell mentioned it would be helpful to see a description of all the > > things that go on from start to finish, in general or course. I agree. It > > helps to know the logic going on behind the scenes when things break. I had > > a problem in August where PostgreSQL would not come up; I finally traced it > > to broken links in the libraries, but it took a long time to find .... and > > there were no error messages logged to help. Does this kind of information > > exist anywhere? > > The information exists only in the source code. I could see the merit of having that info in the docs. Brad.