Improve installation instructions with pg_ctl in documentation

The documentation includes sections to be able to initialize and start
Postgres via a couple of commands.  Some of its recommendations involve
using directly "postgres", which is inconsistent with the recommendation
given by initdb.  At the same time make some other command calls more
consistent with the rest, by using an absolute path when creating a
database.

Author: Andreas Scherbaum
Reviewed-by: Michael Banck, Ryan Lambert

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index ee518fb9b6b39606d534fff3255e4e3646e002ee..449386243b28545148c01b4a82a361c02b44c463 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
 chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
 su - postgres
 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
-/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &
+/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start
 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test
 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test
 </synopsis>

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/standalone-install.xml b/doc/src/sgml/standalone-install.xml
index 62582effed20b1439c0313e3129231428a9e91f6..f584789f9a49ff545ad9721ec79dea291e857c22 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/standalone-install.xml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/standalone-install.xml
@@ -77,25 +77,21 @@ postgres$ <userinput>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data</useri
      The previous <command>initdb</command> step should have told you how to
      start up the database server. Do so now. The command should look
      something like:
-<programlisting>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data</programlisting>
-     This will start the server in the foreground. To put the server
-     in the background use something like:
-<programlisting>nohup /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data \
-    &lt;/dev/null &gt;&gt;server.log 2&gt;&amp;1 &lt;/dev/null &amp;</programlisting>
+<programlisting>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data start</programlisting>
     </para>
 
     <para>
      To stop a server running in the background you can type:
-<programlisting>kill `cat /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`</programlisting>
+<programlisting>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data stop</programlisting>
     </para>
    </step>
 
    <step>
     <para>
      Create a database:
-<screen><userinput>createdb testdb</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb testdb</userinput></screen>
      Then enter:
-<screen><userinput>psql testdb</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql testdb</userinput></screen>
      to connect to that database. At the prompt you can enter SQL
      commands and start experimenting.
     </para>