pg_ctl restart bug

jmitchell@greatbridge.com

From: jmitchell@greatbridge.com
To: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-04-20T17:52:37Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
"pg_ctl restart" fails if anything is quoted in postmaster.opts.

    $ pg_ctl restart
    Smart Shutdown request at Fri Apr 20 10:11:38 2001
    postmaster successfully shut down
    postmaster successfully started
    /usr/bin/postmaster: invalid argument -- '-D'
    Try '/usr/bin/postmaster --help' for more information.


    $ cat postmaster.opts
    /usr/bin/postmaster '-D' '/var/lib/pgsql/data'

It appears that the script doesn't cause the parameters in
postmaster.opts to get dequoted.
I think this is the source of the problem.

Joe

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