Re: Fw: patch for pg_ctl.c to add windows service start-type

Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>

From: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>
To: Quan Zongliang <quanzongliang@gmail.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-09-30T02:40:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi, I have a question about the latest patch.

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Quan Zongliang
<quanzongliang@gmail.com> wrote:
> New patch attached. How about this?
>> I don't see us ever using anything other than auto or demand. The
>> others aren't for "regular services"

+ set_starttype(char *starttypeopt)
+ {
+ 	if (strcmp(starttypeopt, "a") == 0 || strcmp(starttypeopt, "auto") == 0)
+ 		pgctl_start_type = SERVICE_AUTO_START;
+ 	else if (strcmp(starttypeopt, "d") == 0 || strcmp(starttypeopt,
"demand") == 0)
+ 		pgctl_start_type = SERVICE_DEMAND_START;

It accepts only "a" and "auto" for auto, but "au" or "aut" are rejected.
Is is an intended behavior?  I think we can use prefix match here because
we use the logic in some places. For example,

postgres=# SELECT 'tru'::bool, 'fal'::bool;
 bool | bool
------+------
 t    | f
(1 row)

-- 
Itagaki Takahiro