On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 1:56 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Yeah. My main concern here is with limiting our ability to change > the pidfile format in future. If we can keep the dependencies on that > localized to code we control, it'd be much better.
I don't know if it's considered officially supported, but I often use pg_ctl stop on a directory without worrying about whether I'm doing it with the same server version that's running in that directory. I'd be reluctant to break that property. So I bet our ability to modify the file format is already quite limited. But again, no issue with having a way for pg_ctl to fish the information out of there. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
