No, it's not normal.  The "starting anyway" line is followed by an
error and it probably hasn't worked.  Run $ pg_ctl status and see what
it says.  If the server is running it will tell you.

It appears that something is wrong with your postgres installation.

This is a postgres problem, not Slony.  There are separate postgres
mailing lists.


--
Ian.


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, roctaiwan<nettreeinc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Everytime I try to restart postgres it give me following messages:
>
> -bash-3.2$ pg_ctl restar
> pg_ctl: unrecognized operation mode "restar"
> Try "pg_ctl --help" for more information.
> -bash-3.2$ pg_ctl restart
> pg_ctl: PID file "/var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid" does not exist
> Is postmaster running?
> starting postmaster anyway
> pg_ctl: could not read file "/var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.opts"
> -bash-3.2$
>
>
> is that normal? Message says "starting postmaster anyway", does it still
> restarting for me?