From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Mr(dot) Aaron W(dot) Swenson" <titanofold(at)gentoo(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Bug with pg_ctl -w/wait and config-only directories |
Date: | 2011-10-03 18:24:56 |
Message-ID: | CA+OCxowfAjgd5cb9yLRxsK1ZWAYzJoPnSwpM+4yFOzwjh7Ttwg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/03/2011 12:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> >
>> > I was never exactly thrilled with the separate-config-directory design
>> > to start with, so I'm probably not the person to opine on whether we
>> > could get away with removing it.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> The horse has well and truly bolted. We'd have a major row if anyone
>> tried to remove it. Let's not rehash old battles. Our only option is to
>> make it work as best we can.
>
> I disagree. If people were using it we would have had many more bug
> reports about pg_ctl not working.
Debian/ubuntu packages and our own project infrastructure use it.
Though, there is a non-trivial script wrapping it, presumably to try
to make it work properly, and handle side-by-side installations of
different major versions.
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Dave Page
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