Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl.c

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >I am almost finished Andrew's version of pg_ctl.c. Here is the current
> >version I am using.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Bruce,
>
> Thanks for advancing this.
>
> I think this is probably fairly close for Unix - the main thing missing
> is a more determined effort to find out what port is actually being used
> (i.e we need to check the options and the config file).

Oh, I see that now. Let me work on that.

> For Windows we will need different command lines in start_postgres() (or
> if that won't work direct calls to CreateProcess() ), and a way to make
> sure we don't collide with management by SCM - probably the easiest way
> once we have a way of detecting that this is so is to issue "net
> {stop,start} servicename" commands instead of sending
> SIGINT/SIGQUIT/SIGTERM followed by a call to run postmaster.
>
> If you can get it in a shape that we can get it in before feature freeze
> I will try to do any polishing necessary afterwards - unfortunately
> pressure of work is restricting my time right now.

Agreed. Once it is in CVS we can adjust it.

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