Sounds like by "postgresql" user, set the good idea. Assigning to / Cc"ing maintainer.

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For starting/stopping the server, you should do:

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 the postgresql way now, and doesn"t require the other postgresql8x ports? Or do I need to "postgres" user is report the login shell, which is more secure. a OH also one more thing, will this info make it into to have the bug there as well... 

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su postgres -c "${PGCTL} -D ${POSTGRESQL82DATA:=/opt/local/var/db/postgresql82/defaultdb} start -l /opt/local/var/log/postgresql82/postgres.log"

Also, when creating the shell to /usr/bin/false to

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what it"s worth, we discovered this when installing macports postgres for the MacPorts postgres wouldn"t run. The su vs sudo thing didn"t cause any error messages to the postgres instructions. So the "postgres" user with no shell, and to realize what was going on. Hopefully this will help save others some time and be more secure. a different postgres had already been installed from source and installed according to be shown, either, so it took a box where a few hours on system already had a Thanks! Yeah,

The latter