| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Mr(dot) Aaron W(dot) Swenson" <titanofold(at)gentoo(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Bug with pg_ctl -w/wait and config-only directories |
| Date: | 2011-10-04 21:49:07 |
| Message-ID: | 29481.1317764947@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Greg Stark wrote:
>> An interactive tool can dwim automatically but that isn't appropriate
>> for a startup script. A startupt script should always do the same
>> thing exactly and do that based on the OS policy, not based on
>> inspecting what programs are actually running on the machine.
> I agree, except the Gentoo script does exactly that --- wait for
> completion using pg_ctl -w.
As of fairly recently, the Fedora package also uses pg_ctl for both
starting and stopping. We've fixed all the reasons that formerly
existed to avoid use of pg_ctl, and it's a real PITA to try to
implement the waiting logic at shell level.
regards, tom lane
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