Re: pg_ctl
- From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
- To: "David Garamond" <lists(at)zara(dot)6(dot)isreserved(dot)com>
- Cc: "pgsql-hackers-win32" <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
- Subject: Re: pg_ctl
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:30:20 +0100
- Message-id: <6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE34B5CE(at)algol(dot)sollentuna(dot)se>
> >>Are we now in a state where it would make sense to look at doing
> >>pg_ctl
> >>in C?
> >
> > Why bother? I should think that Windows users want to run PG as a
> > service.
>
> Except when a non administrator wants to run his own PG instance.
This is one of the reasons why a pg_ctl is still needed. The other is if
you run the server in debugging on the commandline. You can shut it down
with Ctrl-C, but you can't send signals to reload etc.
//Magnus
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