Andriy Bakay <andriy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have problems to setup SSL for PostgreSQL server. I did all the steps > which described in the documentation (17.8. Secure TCP/IP Connections > with SSL), but when I try to start the PostgreSQL server the pg_ctl gave > me: "could not start server". And nothing in the logs (I enabled all of > them). I googled around but did not find much. There is *no* exit path from the PG server that does not spit out an error message someplace. Re-examine the logging setup. I don't know how FreeBSD's package sets it up exactly, but there have been packages in the past that just sent the postmaster's stderr to /dev/null :-(. See here for some documentation about the settings that determine where messages go: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/runtime-config-logging.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-LOGGING-WHERE regards, tom lane
