Re: Patch BUG #5103: "pg_ctl -w (re)start" fails with custom unix_socket_directory

Excerpts from Quan Zongliang's message of mar dic 21 18:36:11 -0300 2010:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:29:17 -0300
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>

> > I think the way this should work is that you call postmaster with a new
> > switch and it prints out its configuration, after reading the
> > appropriate config file(s). That way it handles all the little details
> > such as figuring out the correct config file, hadle include files, etc.
> > This output would be presumably easier to parse and more trustworthy.
>
> Sorry for my late reply.
>
> I will check the source of postmaster.

Actually Bruce Momjian is now working on a different fix:
unix_socket_directory would be added to postmaster.pid, allowing pg_ctl
to find it.

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