> >> In some cases it writes to the eventlog instead of stderr. 
> 
> > Yes, this is what's happening. Odd though, considering that I have:
> > #log_destination = 'stderr'
> > In my out-of-the-box config.
> 
> pg_ctl doesn't read the config file, though.  Probably we 
> need to make write_stderr aware that it's running in an 
> interactive program rather than in the postmaster, and never 
> use the eventlog in this context.

It must sitll use the eventlog when called as a service control process,
otherwise any error output from pg_ctl in that scenario would go to
/dev/null... 
There is code that attempts to check this, but it's apparantly failing.

//Magnus

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