Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
> surabhi.ahuja wrote:
>> i have noted the following lines in the script to start or shut down
>> postmaster.
>> ...
> Yes - this looks like a Red Hat script. It's certainly not the one that
> ships with the source distribution.
It's not the one that ships with Red Hat, either ;-)
If you're running SUSE then the best advice is probably to install
SUSE's postgresql package, which presumably will contain a start script
that works on that distro.
regards, tom lane