Gauthier, Dave escribió: > Well, I can start the server with.... > > postmaster -D /myplace/db > > ... and then... > ^z > bg > > ... to get to the prompt. But each/every time a message from the > postmaster gets logged, it goes to stdout of the current window. I want > it to go to a logfile. Attempts to redirect with "&" all seem to fail. > "postmaster -d myplace/db -l logfile start" (as was in the message right > after the initial db create) doesn't seem to work.
Enable the redirect_stderr config option in postgresql.conf. That should do the trick. You can change the log file name and directory on postgresql.conf too. initdb doesn't say you can use -l in postmaster; it is talking about pg_ctl. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/CTMLCN8V17R4 "MySQL is a toy compared to PostgreSQL." (Randal L. Schwartz) (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-07/msg00517.php) ---------------------------(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
