Re: BUG #1337: Problem running PostgreSQL as service, incl.

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>

From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
To: PJMODOS <pjmodos@parba.cz>
Cc: pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-12-06T01:12:04Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:43 +0000, PostgreSQL Bugs List wrote:
> In 8.0 RC1, because of bug in -D parsing in pg_ctl I am unable to run 
> postgres as service when I have space in data path - when i register it with 
> pg_ctl register -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\data" and try to run it then 
> it won't work and in event log I have this: pg_ctl: no database directory 
> specified and environment variable PGDATA unset.
> 
> I have found very simple solution, just added + 1 in one of xmallocs and it 
> seems to work, diff follows: 

Thanks, fixed. (I used a slightly different fix: xstrdup() rather than
xmalloc() + strcpy() ).

-Neil