Hi Tom, You are right. That worked. I feel it is a documentation bug as with the default settings, executing the provided command would not start the server in foreground mode.
The default setting for silent_mode is on is what I have seen. Regards Karthik On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > karthik.jc...@gmail.com writes: > > As per the documentation by default postgres server should run in > > foreground. I am referring to this link - > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/server-start.html > > But what I have observed is, it is not happening and the command returns > > immediately. Below is the transcript - > > Is it possible you've got silent_mode enabled in postgresql.conf? > That's the only thing I can think of that would make it do that. > > regards, tom lane >