Richard Huxton <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > surabhi.ahuja wrote: >> i have noted the following lines in the script to start or shut down >> postmaster. >> ... > Yes - this looks like a Red Hat script. It's certainly not the one that > ships with the source distribution. It's not the one that ships with Red Hat, either ;-) If you're running SUSE then the best advice is probably to install SUSE's postgresql package, which presumably will contain a start script that works on that distro. regards, tom lane
