BUG #15916: Confusing upgrade message

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 08:32:04AM +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:

The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference: 15916
Logged by: Marnanel Thurman
Email address: thomas@thurman.org.uk
PostgreSQL version: 11.4
Operating system: Debian
Description:

This happens with version 11.4-1.pgdg90+1 in
http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ .

The upgrade process prints this message:

Success. You can now start the database server using:

pg_ctlcluster 11 main start

But the server is restarted automatically, immediately afterwards. So the
message is confusing, and should be suppressed.

Uh, my guess is that initdb is being run as pg_ctlcluster, but that
there is some wrapper around that that is starting the database after
the initdb. I think you need to report this as a bug to the people who
packaged this since pg_ctlcluster is Debian-specific. Was there any
output after this to indicate the server had been started?

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