Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I always wondered why the Redhat init scripts thought it was a clever idea to > redirect the output to /dev/null. It seems like a pessimal user interface > choice. Every time I have to work with a Redhat machine where Postgres isn't > starting up the first thing I have to do is edit the init script so I can what > the problem is.
Yeah, that's finally fixed in the latest versions. The problem was that sending the postmaster log into a file wasn't a good long-term idea because of the lack of any way to rotate the log. Current RPMs set up redirect_stderr with some reasonable rotation options instead. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match