Re: Bad UI design: pg_ctl and data_directory

From: Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bad UI design: pg_ctl and data_directory
Date: 2011-06-01 21:27:48
Message-ID: BANLkTi=cL_wdUkbXt33+Lzr9J_cdzrJbsw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> I can't speak for Debian, but the above statement is 100% false for Red
> Hat.  In any case, no RH system has ever expected users to issue pg_ctl
> start/stop directly, and I think the same is true for Debian, so the
> bizarre design wouldn't matter to us even if the case did apply.
>

that's right, the debian way is pg_ctlcluster

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