Re: [BUGS] follow-up: problems with pg_ctl -w

I have added additional documentation for environment variables for
pg_ctl, patch attached.

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Marvin Solomon wrote:
>
> [This is meant to be a follow-up of a bug report I sent earlier using the web
> form. It's not clear to me the right way to post a follow-up, since I didn't
> get a copy of the email generated by the web form, and the email hasn't shown
> up on the pgsql-bugs web site -- at least not yet.]
>
> I subsequently discovered that setting PGUSER in the environment gets around
> the first problem I mentioned, so it's really just a documentation problem:
> PGUSER is not mentioned on the pg_ctl doc page.
>
> But I found a worse problem. Sometimes (not repeatably), pg_ctl start -w
> logs the message
>
> FATAL: the database is starting up
>
> and immediately returns. I believe the correct thing for it to do when it
> gets this message from an attempt to open a session is to try again. Instead,
> it returns as if the startup was successful.
>
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