Re: CVS Head: Pg_ctl bug?

> >> In some cases it writes to the eventlog instead of stderr.
>
> > Yes, this is what's happening. Odd though, considering that I have:
> > #log_destination = 'stderr'
> > In my out-of-the-box config.
>
> pg_ctl doesn't read the config file, though. Probably we
> need to make write_stderr aware that it's running in an
> interactive program rather than in the postmaster, and never
> use the eventlog in this context.

It must sitll use the eventlog when called as a service control process,
otherwise any error output from pg_ctl in that scenario would go to
/dev/null...
There is code that attempts to check this, but it's apparantly failing.

//Magnus