Santiago DIEZ <santiago.diez@xxxxxxxx> writes: > no no, if I set -t to 60 seconds (or even 1000), it's the same problem. David's right though: any reasonably modern version of pg_ctl (since about 9.1 I believe) gets everything it needs to know out of the postmaster.pid file. Compiling in a different default unix_socket_directory might save some effort when using psql or other clients, but it should make no difference to pg_ctl. It might be useful to strace pg_ctl to see what it's doing in the problem case. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin