Finally, I've found that the stop command in the init script was not even executed because: if pg_ctl status -s -D $DATADIR >/dev/null
fails with:
pg_ctl: no server running
Michael, I need to check wheter it is the same on your machine. Can you please add the command: Yes, same thing here (see also comment #5). I will attach the requested logs. I also added a "ps -ef | grep postgres" to the stop section. It shows, that at
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906900
Michael Schlueter