Re: Change 'pg_ctl: no server running' Exit Status to 3

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: "Aaron W(dot) Swenson" <aaron(dot)w(dot)swenson(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Change 'pg_ctl: no server running' Exit Status to 3
Date: 2011-10-13 17:02:40
Message-ID: 201110131702.p9DH2eH21102@momjian.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On m?n, 2011-05-23 at 20:50 -0400, Aaron W. Swenson wrote:
> > According to Linux Standard Base Core Specification 3.1 [1], the exit
> > status should be '3' when the server isn't running.
> >
> > I've attached a very simple patch that resolves this cosmetic issue,
> > which applies to all branches.
>
> If we're going to make the exit status meaningful, it should probably be
> added to the documentation.

Patch attached and applied, with docs. I also cleaned up some C
comments, which are not in the attached patch.

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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com

+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +

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