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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, "Mr. Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@gentoo.org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-10-04T21:49:07Z
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  1. Fix nested PlaceHolderVar expressions that appear only in targetlists.

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Greg Stark wrote:
>> An interactive tool can dwim automatically but that isn't appropriate
>> for a startup script. A startupt script should always do the same
>> thing exactly and do that based on the OS policy, not based on
>> inspecting what programs are actually running on the machine.

> I agree, except the Gentoo script does exactly that --- wait for
> completion using pg_ctl -w.

As of fairly recently, the Fedora package also uses pg_ctl for both
starting and stopping.  We've fixed all the reasons that formerly
existed to avoid use of pg_ctl, and it's a real PITA to try to
implement the waiting logic at shell level.

			regards, tom lane