| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Steve McWilliams <smcwilliams(at)EmprisaNetworks(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [BUGS] "pg_ctl -w" does not return a failure exit code when postmaster |
| Date: | 2004-12-21 17:38:55 |
| Message-ID: | 200412211738.iBLHctP04500@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Steve McWilliams wrote:
> I have noticed on linux that if you try to start postmaster via "pg_ctl
> -w", but the postmaster fails to run (e.g. if you forgot to create
> PGDATA), it returns a 0 exit code. It needs to return a non-0 exit code
> if postmaster failed to start, when you are using the "-w" option to wait
> for it to start.
OK, this small applied patch fixes the problem. pg_ctl.c is a new file
in 8.0 so we didn't hit all the return values correctly on our first
try.
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