Re: Bug with pg_ctl -w/wait and config-only directories

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, "Mr. Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@gentoo.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2011-10-03T15:34:22Z

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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> I am starting to question the value of config-only directories if pg_ctl
> stop doesn't work, or you have to specify a different directory for
> start and stop.

Yup.

> Did we not think of these things when we designed config-only
> directories?  I don't even see this problem mentioned in our
> documentation.

Yeah, we did.  The people who were lobbying for the feature didn't care,
or possibly thought that somebody would fix it for them later.

			regards, tom lane