Re: Patch BUG #5103: "pg_ctl -w (re)start" fails with custom unix_socket_directory

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Quan Zongliang's message of mar dic 21 18:36:11 -0300 2010:
> > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:29:17 -0300
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> >
>
> > > I think the way this should work is that you call postmaster with a new
> > > switch and it prints out its configuration, after reading the
> > > appropriate config file(s). That way it handles all the little details
> > > such as figuring out the correct config file, hadle include files, etc.
> > > This output would be presumably easier to parse and more trustworthy.
> >
> > Sorry for my late reply.
> >
> > I will check the source of postmaster.
>
> Actually Bruce Momjian is now working on a different fix:
> unix_socket_directory would be added to postmaster.pid, allowing pg_ctl
> to find it.

Yes, I will apply this patch tomorrow and it will be in 9.1. Thanks for
the report.

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