| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: CVS Head: Pg_ctl bug? |
| Date: | 2005-08-29 19:46:02 |
| Message-ID: | 12470.1125344762@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> I just noticed that if I don't specify a data directory either on the
> command line or in $PGDATA,, pg_ctl fails silently on Windows (haven't
> been able to test other platforms atm). Is this a bug or an oversight -
> an error message would seem appropriate?
On my machine it does this:
$ bin/pg_ctl start
pg_ctl: no database directory specified and environment variable PGDATA unset
Try "pg_ctl --help" for more information.
$
Is write_stderr() broken on Windows?
regards, tom lane
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