pg_ctl: improve handling of invalid data directory

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

Commit: 11d205e2bd66cefe0b7d69c02e831cd055cbb5bb
Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: 2014-03-08T17:15:25Z
Releases: 9.4.0
pg_ctl:  improve handling of invalid data directory

Return '4' and report a meaningful error message when a non-existent or
invalid data directory is passed.  Previously, pg_ctl would just report
the server was not running.

Patch by me and Amit Kapila
Report from Peter Eisentraut

Files

PathChange+/−
doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml modified +2 −1
src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c modified +37 −11