The initdb command said I could use that command, but pg_ctl works fine now. I should have tried that before. I have always used pg_ctl in the past, don't know why I just went with the postgres command.
Thanks,Susan
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Shaun Thomas <sthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When I start postgres using postgres -D $PGDATA, it hangs, and I see that
> postgres and all the other attendant processes are running, but I never
> get my prompt back.
Don't start PostgreSQL with the 'postgres' command. That's the name of the actual server process. You want to use the control script, normally named pg_ctl. You call it like this:
pg_ctl -D $PGDATA start
Stop it like this:
pg_ctl -D $PGDATA stop
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