On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> I can't speak for Debian, but the above statement is 100% false for Red
> Hat. In any case, no RH system has ever expected users to issue pg_ctl
> start/stop directly, and I think the same is true for Debian, so the
> bizarre design wouldn't matter to us even if the case did apply.
>
that's right, the debian way is pg_ctlcluster
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