| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
|---|---|
| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Mr(dot) Aaron W(dot) Swenson" <titanofold(at)gentoo(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Bug with pg_ctl -w/wait and config-only directories |
| Date: | 2011-10-03 22:45:16 |
| Message-ID: | 201110032245.p93MjGX06593@momjian.us |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of lun oct 03 17:28:53 -0300 2011:
> >
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> > > Well, we have the Gentoo developer in this very thread. I'm sure they
> > > would fix their command line if we gave them a pg_ctl that worked.
> > > Surely the package that contains the init script also contains pg_ctl,
> > > so they would both be upgraded simultaneously.
> >
> > What is the fix? If they started the server by using --data-directory,
> > pg_ctl stop has no way to find the postmaster.pid file, and hence stop
> > the server. Are you suggesting we remove this ability?
>
> I am suggesting they don't start it by using --data-directory in the
> first place.
Agreed. If you remove that, the logical problem goes away and it
becomes a simple problem of dumping the contents of postgresql.conf and
having pg_ctl (and pg_upgrade) use that. Let me look at how much code
that would take.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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