Gary Horton <Gary.Horton@xxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> The -w-doesn't-wait-long-enough bit needs investigation. > No messages, no smoking gun. If you mean running the sh script with -x, > it's really not complicated enough to warrant that - I've added echo > statements to confirm that it's just falling through. But let's be sure > we're saying the same thing: I would expect pg_ctl -w to /block/ until > database is started, in other words by the time the pg_ctl command > "returns", then checking database status with psql -l should > succeed...are we on the same page? Yeah ... in fact, if you read the script, what it does is loop until a psql -l succeeds ... so why wouldn't your following instance also succeed? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly