Re: pg_ctl

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "David Garamond" <lists(at)zara(dot)6(dot)isreserved(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers-win32" <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_ctl
Date: 2004-03-24 22:30:20
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE34B5CE@algol.sollentuna.se
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> >>Are we now in a state where it would make sense to look at doing
> >>pg_ctl
> >>in C?
> >
> > Why bother? I should think that Windows users want to run PG as a
> > service.
>
> Except when a non administrator wants to run his own PG instance.

This is one of the reasons why a pg_ctl is still needed. The other is if
you run the server in debugging on the commandline. You can shut it down
with Ctrl-C, but you can't send signals to reload etc.

//Magnus

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