Re: pg_ctl

[Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>]

Back on December 1st I wrote:

> I suspect this work is actually a bit premature, and would best be 
> done after we have a working Win32 postmaster. After all, you can 
> happily run postgres without ever calling pg_ctl - it's a convenience 
> rather than an absolute necessity (unlike initdb). On Windows, 
> production users probably wouldn't use it at all - they would use the 
> service manager, I should think.

Are we now in a state where it would make sense to look at doing pg_ctl 
in C?

(And has anyone looked at putting in service manager hooks?)

cheers

andrew