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

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, 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: 2011-10-05T14:15:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I still think this is a matter for HEAD only.  We haven't supported
> these cases in back branches and so there is little argument for
> back-patching.

According to Bruce's original post, there is at least one 9.1
regression here relative to 9.0:

>> What is even worse is that pre-9.1, pg_ctl start would read ports from
>> the pg_ctl -o command line, but in 9.1 we changed this to force reading
>> the postmaster.pid file to find the port number and socket directory
>> location --- meaning, new in PG 9.1, 'pg_ctl -w start' doesn't work for
>> config-only directories either.

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