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To start the <application>postmaster</application> in the
background, use the usual shell syntax:
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-> <userinput>postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data > logfile 1>&2 &</userinput>
+> <userinput>postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data > logfile 2>&1 &</userinput>
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It is an extremely good idea to keep the server output around
somewhere, as indicated here. It will help both for auditing