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

Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>

From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>

To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, 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: 2011-10-03T18:24:56Z

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Fix nested PlaceHolderVar expressions that appear only in targetlists.
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On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/03/2011 12:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> >
>> > I was never exactly thrilled with the separate-config-directory design
>> > to start with, so I'm probably not the person to opine on whether we
>> > could get away with removing it.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> The horse has well and truly bolted. We'd have a major row if anyone
>> tried to remove it. Let's not rehash old battles. Our only option is to
>> make it work as best we can.
>
> I disagree.  If people were using it we would have had many more bug
> reports about pg_ctl not working.

Debian/ubuntu packages and our own project infrastructure use it.
Though, there is a non-trivial script wrapping it, presumably to try
to make it work properly, and handle side-by-side installations of
different major versions.

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