On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:05:37PM -0700, Medi Montaseri wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to measure startup time of postmaster. Say I have postmaster

Why?

> running on -D /tmp/d1 and would like to restart it on -D /tmp/d2.
> 
> If I just say
> time pg_ctl restart -D /tmp/d2
> it will not produce an accurate result because pg_ctl will start postmaster
> in the background and return immediately but if you query the engine right
> away, you'll see that it is not ready yet as in
> time ( pg_ctl restart -D /tmp/d2 ; psql -l )
> 
> If I call postmaster, then the command is blocking waiting for postmaster to
> exit.

So let it stop, start the timer, then start it again.
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