The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 7561
Logged by: Reinhard Max
Email address: max@suse.de
PostgreSQL version: 9.1.5
Operating system: openSUSE
Description: =
When initially starting up, syslogger keeps stdout and stderr open instead
of closing them and reopening them from /dev/null for proper daemonisation.
This causes the process that triggers PostgreSQL to hang if it uses a pipe
to synchronize itself with the backgrounding of the server.
I've sent a proposed fix to Peter Eisentraut.