| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Uninformative messages from pg_ctl |
| Date: | 2007-10-09 11:20:05 |
| Message-ID: | 20071009112005.GH3093@svr2.hagander.net |
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:09:19PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 9. Oktober 2007 schrieb Simon Riggs:
> > These messages from pg_ctl are not useful
> >
> > $ pg_ctl -D nonexistent stop
> > pg_ctl: PID file "nonexistent/postmaster.pid" does not exist
> > Is server running?
> >
> > The message should say
> > pg_ctl: Data Directory "nonexistent" does not exist
>
> Well, this objection could apply to any place where a file is being opened.
> I'm curious how you plan to sort out the difference, considering that open()
> simply returns ENOENT in both cases.
You'd do opendir() on the directory part fisrt, I assume.
A question I had about it is, where are we wrt translations? When do we
plan string freeze?
//Magnus
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