Re: BUG #18958: "pg_ctl start" allows subsequent CTRL-C key in cmd.exe to unexpectedly terminate cluster on Windows

On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM Seva Zaslavsky <szaslavsky@mpcapitallp.com>
wrote:

> I'm still observing the behavior that pressing CTRL-C inside cmd.exe
> terminates the cluster that was started inside that cmd.exe.
>
> According to the documentation for pg_ctl "The server is started in the
> background, and its standard input is attached to /dev/null (or nul on
> Windows)." but if pressing CTRL-C in a cmd.exe window terminates the
> cluster that was started inside that cmd.exe window, doesn't it seem like
> stdin is attached to the output cmd.exe and not to NUL?
>
ctrl-c sends an operating system signal.  Signals don't use
stdin/stdout/etc... to communicate

David J.