| Age | Commit message (Expand) | Author |
| 2023-01-26 | Remove gratuitous references to postmaster program | Peter Eisentraut |
| 2017-11-17 | Remove contrib/start-scripts/osx/. | Tom Lane |
| 2017-11-17 | Provide modern examples of how to auto-start Postgres on macOS. | Tom Lane |
| 2017-11-06 | start-scripts: switch to $PGUSER before opening $PGLOG. | Noah Misch |
| 2017-02-06 | Fix typos in comments. | Heikki Linnakangas |
| 2017-01-14 | pg_ctl: Change default to wait for all actions | Peter Eisentraut |
| 2017-01-14 | Updates to reflect that pg_ctl stop -m fast is the default | Peter Eisentraut |
| 2017-01-12 | Make whitespace consistent inside some script files | Peter Eisentraut |
| 2015-04-26 | Fix typo in linux startup script. | Tom Lane |
| 2014-09-09 | doc: Reflect renaming of Mac OS X to OS X | Peter Eisentraut |
| 2014-07-01 | Improve handling of OOM score adjustment in sample Linux start script. | Tom Lane |
| 2014-06-19 | Improve our mechanism for controlling the Linux out-of-memory killer. | Tom Lane |
| 2013-09-04 | Remove dead URL mention in OSX startup script | Bruce Momjian |
| 2013-04-30 | Revert "pg_ctl: Add idempotent option" | Peter Eisentraut |
| 2013-04-19 | Don't try to pass -I switch to postmaster in contrib/start-scripts/linux. | Tom Lane |
| 2013-04-14 | pg_ctl: Add idempotent option | Peter Eisentraut |
| 2012-06-13 | Support Linux's oom_score_adj API as well as the older oom_adj API. | Tom Lane |
| 2011-11-26 | Fix overly-aggressive and inconsistent quoting in OS X start script. | Tom Lane |
| 2010-11-23 | Remove useless whitespace at end of lines | Peter Eisentraut |
| 2010-09-20 | Remove cvs keywords from all files. | Magnus Hagander |
| 2010-02-23 | Modify freebsd start script to just exit 0 with message. | Bruce Momjian |
| 2010-02-23 | Update startup scripts for Linux and FreeBSD. | Bruce Momjian |
| 2010-01-11 | Add some simple support and documentation for using process-specific oom_adj | Tom Lane |
| 2009-08-27 | Make it reasonably safe to use pg_ctl to start the postmaster from a boot-time | Tom Lane |
| 2008-01-16 | Remove inappropriate cd commands, per David Wheeler. Also make | Tom Lane |
| 2007-05-30 | Add standard error redirection for OS/X & darwin startup script. | Bruce Momjian |
| 2007-05-30 | Update /contrib OS/X startup files, and move to a separate OS/X | Bruce Momjian |
| 2006-07-13 | Be consistent about not using ECHO_N/ECHO_C (seems unnecessary on Linux). | Peter Eisentraut |
| 2004-10-01 | Adjust postmaster to recognize that a lockfile containing its parent's PID | Tom Lane |
| 2004-03-09 | I wanted to submit some changes to the bundled postgres startup | Bruce Momjian |
| 2003-11-29 | $Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ... | PostgreSQL Daemon |
| 2003-11-12 | Typo fix in comment from David Wheeler | Bruce Momjian |
| 2003-07-26 | Fix for Linux startup script. | Bruce Momjian |
| 2003-06-12 | Add Linux restart --- Slawomir Sudnik | Bruce Momjian |
| 2002-12-09 | I've simplified the Darwin/Mac OS X startup script I submitted earlier | Bruce Momjian |
| 2001-07-30 | Patch to add comments to Linux startup script. | Bruce Momjian |
| 2001-04-19 | Pass -D option to pg_ctl because export PGDATA won't be preserved across | Peter Eisentraut |
| 2001-02-10 | Add new FreeBSD start script that makes use of new pg_ctl functionality. | Peter Eisentraut |
| 2001-02-08 | Remove outdated contrib/linux start scripts. Beat some sense into | Peter Eisentraut |