> >> 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
