Re: pgsql: Further improvements in pg_ctl's new wait-for-postmaster-start l

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> All of this could be improved if we rewrote start_postmaster() so that it
> >> could report the child postmaster's PID, so that we'd know a-priori the
> >> correct PID to test with postmaster_is_alive(). That looks like a bit too
> >> much change for so late in the 9.1 development cycle, unfortunately.
>
> > Is this a TODO?
>
> Yeah, probably. Until this go-round it wasn't worth the trouble, but
> now it seems like the one remaining roadblock to making pg_ctl start -w
> fully bulletproof.

Done:

Improve pg_ctl's detection of running postmasters

* http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-06/msg00000.php
* http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2011-06/msg00001.php

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