Adam Dear <adear@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm not seeing the madisoncounty user in there. Odder and odder. It might be worth trying "vacuum freeze pg_shadow". > Also, I tried starting > the db using /etc/init.d/postgres start, and it fails. Fails how? In particular, what shows up in the postmaster log? > Is that the > proper way to get the service going, or should I be doing something else? The usual way to manually start/stop daemons on Linux is sudo /sbin/service postgresql start sudo /sbin/service postgresql stop (omitting sudo if you're already root). I'm not sure offhand if there's any real difference between that and just calling the init.d script directly, but I believe that's how you're Supposed To Do It. regards, tom lane
