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

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Aaron W. Swenson
<aaron(dot)w(dot)swenson(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> According to Linux Standard Base Core Specification 3.1 [1], the exit
> status should be '3' when the server isn't running.
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> I've attached a very simple patch that resolves this cosmetic issue,
> which applies to all branches.
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> My initial search regarding other platforms has turned up nil. It looks
> like they just check for a zero or non-zero exit status.
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> As for the necessity of the patch: Gentoo Linux uses pg_ctl in all of
> its initscript actions for PostgreSQL. I'd imagine that Gentoo is not
> the only distribution that takes advantage of pg_ctl for its initscript
> actions.

I'd be disinclined to back-patch this as it might break things for
people. But I see no harm in applying it to master, if nobody
objects...

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