Re: pg_ctl restart issue with relative paths

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_ctl restart issue with relative paths
Date: 2012-10-15 19:27:48
Message-ID: 20121015192748.GF7494@momjian.us
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 09:56:46AM -0700, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > I have noticed that, using pg_ctl, if you start Postgres using a
> > relative path, then attempt to restart it from anywhere else, it
> > fails.
>
> Yeah, I was complaining about the same problem here:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2011-10/msg00210.php
>
> and at least there's a doc note now warning against using relative
> paths, though it sure would be nice if we could fix this gripe.

FYI, the doc patch is mentioned here:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2012-08/msg00133.php

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