Re: pg_ctl idempotent option

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> On 1/14/13 10:22 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Also it appears to me that the hunk at lines 812ff is changing the
>>> default behavior, which is not what the patch is advertised to do.
>
>> True, I had forgotten to mention that.
>
>> Since it's already the behavior for start, another option would be to
>> just make it the default for stop as well and forget about the extra
>> options.  I'm not sure whether there is a big use case for getting an
>> error code on stop if the server is already stopped.
>
> Actually, I seem to recall having had to hack Red Hat's initscript
> because the LSB standard requires that stopping a not-running server
> *not* be an error.  So +1 for forgetting about the option entirely
> and just making it idempotent all the time.

+1

>
>                         regards, tom lane
>
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