Re: Patch BUG #5103: "pg_ctl -w (re)start" fails with custom unix_socket_directory

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:29:17 -0300
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Quan Zongliang's message of sáb nov 27 06:03:12 -0300 2010:
> > Hi, all
> > 
> > I created a pg_ctl patch to fix:
> > * BUG #5103: "pg_ctl -w (re)start" fails with custom unix_socket_directory 
> > Allow pg_ctl to work properly with configuration files located outside the PGDATA directory
> 
> I think the way this should work is that you call postmaster with a new
> switch and it prints out its configuration, after reading the
> appropriate config file(s).  That way it handles all the little details
> such as figuring out the correct config file, hadle include files, etc.
> This output would be presumably easier to parse and more trustworthy.
> 
> Right now we have --describe-config, which is missing the values for
> each config option.
> 

Sorry for my late reply.

I will check the source of postmaster.


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Quan Zongliang <quanzongliang@gmail.com>