Okay, I changed postmaster.opts to include d=2, and I verified using "pg_ctl status" that it applies. Now where is the log file? The queries do not go to syslog...

There is a file that looks like a log: /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_log. It is growing, but when I start psql and do "SELECT * from pg_log", I get "ERROR: pg_log cannot be accessed by users"...

Actually, I use the -l switch to pg_ctl to specify the location of the log file. As long as the file you are talking about is not actually pg_xlog that might be it. You might try more /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_log Any file in that directory will not be a database or table. Or look in the .../pgsql directory and see if it is not there. It looks like there is also a way in postgresql.conf to send logging to syslog.

From the postmaster man page, it says that postmaster runs in the foreground by default and prints log messages to stdout.

So the easiest thing to do may be just to start it by hand in the foreground and watch the log on the console, or redirect it to a file using postmaster [other switches here] -o -d 2 > logfile _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp