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

Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@gentoo.org>

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From: "Mr. Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@gentoo.org>
To: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-10-04T18:06:18Z
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  1. Fix nested PlaceHolderVar expressions that appear only in targetlists.

On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:42:42AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On m?n, 2011-10-03 at 18:44 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Agreed.  You could argue that pg_ctl 9.1 is much better than anything
> > > anyone would be able to craft in a script.
> > 
> > And what facts support that argument?
> 
> Because pg_ctl 9.1 will read postmaster.pid and find the port number,
> socket location, and listen host for wait mode --- I doubt someone would
> do that work in a script.

I don't know why we chose pg_ctl, but I chose to stick with pg_ctl over
rolling my own precisely because of that. pg_ctl does all sorts of fancy
things that would have taken me a much longer time than figuring out a way
to allow a configuration-only directory and a data-only directory.

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Mr. Aaron W. Swenson
Gentoo Linux Developer
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