Re: BUG #1337: Problem running PostgreSQL as service, incl.

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: PJMODOS <pjmodos(at)parba(dot)cz>
Cc: pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #1337: Problem running PostgreSQL as service, incl.
Date: 2004-12-06 01:12:04
Message-ID: 1102295524.1494.8.camel@localhost.localdomain
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On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:43 +0000, PostgreSQL Bugs List wrote:
> In 8.0 RC1, because of bug in -D parsing in pg_ctl I am unable to run
> postgres as service when I have space in data path - when i register it with
> pg_ctl register -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\data" and try to run it then
> it won't work and in event log I have this: pg_ctl: no database directory
> specified and environment variable PGDATA unset.
>
> I have found very simple solution, just added + 1 in one of xmallocs and it
> seems to work, diff follows:

Thanks, fixed. (I used a slightly different fix: xstrdup() rather than
xmalloc() + strcpy() ).

-Neil

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