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Re: Reducing pg_ctl's reaction time

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-06-29T18:39:09Z
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Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> writes:
> In the now-committed version of this, the 'pg_ctl start' returns
> successfully as soon as the server reaches a consistent state. Which is OK,
> except that it does the same thing when hot_standby=off.  When
> hot_standby=off, I would expect it to wait for the end of recovery before
> exiting with a success code.

Um, won't it be waiting forever with that definition?

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Change pg_ctl to detect server-ready by watching status in postmaster.pid.

  2. Reduce pg_ctl's reaction time when waiting for postmaster start/stop.