Re: pg_ctl restart - behaviour based on wrong instance

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-10-12T18:10:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > I looked over this issue and I don't thinking having pg_ctl restart fall
> > back to 'start' is a good solution. ?I am concerned about cases where we
> > start a different server without shutting down the old server, for some
> > reason. ?When they say 'restart', I think we have to assume they want a
> > restart.
> >
> > What I did do was to document that not backing up postmaster.pid and
> > postmaster.opts might help prevent pg_ctl from getting confused.
> 
> Should we exclude postmaster.opts from streaming base backups? We
> already exclude postmaster.pid...

Uh, I think so, unless my analysis was wrong.

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