Re: your mail

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-11-26T04:39:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is the first draft for the spec of postmaster starting/stopping
> tool. I have named it as "pg_ctl."
> 
> o pg_ctl [-w] start
> 
> start up postmaster. If -w is specified, it will wait for the database
> up and running.  Options for postmaster should be placed in
> $PGDATA/postmaster.conf.
> 
> Note: pg_ctl assumes that postmaster writes its pid into
> $PGDATA/postmaster.pid.
> 
> o pg_ctl [-w][-s|-f|-i] stop

Looks good to me.

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