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edited Oct 13, 2016 at 3:13

As it turns out, it was running in the console because I didn't tell it where to stream the log. The following sent the process in the background:

pg_ctl restart -l %PGDATA%\server.log

Question: Is there a way to specify a default server log (like in postgresql.conf) so that -l is optional only if I want to override it?

pg_ctl restart -l %PGDATA%\server.log

As it turns out, it was running in the console because I didn't tell it where to stream the log. The following sent the process in the background:

pg_ctl restart -l %PGDATA%\server.log

Question: Is there a way to specify a default server log (like in postgresql.conf) so that -l is optional only if I want to override it?

As it turns out, it was running in the console because I didn't tell it where to stream the log. The following sent the process in the background:

pg_ctl restart -l %PGDATA%\server.log

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created Oct 12, 2016 at 20:33

As it turns out, it was running in the console because I didn't tell it where to stream the log. The following sent the process in the background:

pg_ctl restart -l %PGDATA%\server.log

Question: Is there a way to specify a default server log (like in postgresql.conf) so that -l is optional only if I want to override it?