Re: Change 'pg_ctl: no server running' Exit Status to 3

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: "Aaron W. Swenson" <aaron.w.swenson@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-10-13T17:02:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On m?n, 2011-05-23 at 20:50 -0400, Aaron W. Swenson wrote:
> > According to Linux Standard Base Core Specification 3.1 [1], the exit
> > status should be '3' when the server isn't running.
> > 
> > I've attached a very simple patch that resolves this cosmetic issue,
> > which applies to all branches.
> 
> If we're going to make the exit status meaningful, it should probably be
> added to the documentation.

Patch attached and applied, with docs.  I also cleaned up some C
comments, which are not in the attached patch.

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