Re: "pg_ctl promote" exit status

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 09:46:32AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 1/26/13 4:44 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote:
> > You are right. Had I read a little further down, it seems that the
> > exit status should actually be 7.
>
> 7 is OK for "not running", but what should we use when the server is not
> in standby mode? Using the idempotent argument that we are discussing
> for the stop action, promoting a server that is not a standby should be
> a noop and exit successfully. Not sure if that is what we want, though.

I looked at all the LSB return codes listed here and mapped them to
pg_ctl error situations:

https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html

Patch attached. I did not touch the start/stop return codes.

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