Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote:
> > I have applied this patch, with modified wording of the "cannot connect"
> > case:
> >
> > ? ? ? ?$ pg_ctl -w -l /dev/null start
> > ? ? ? ?waiting for server to start.... done
> > ? ? ? ?server started
> > ? ? ? ?warning: ?could not connect, perhaps due to invalid authentication or
> > ? ? ? ?misconfiguration.
> 
> This patch breaks the behavior that "pg_ctl -w start" waits until the standby
> has been ready to accept read-only queries. IOW, pg_ctl without this patch
> continues to check the connection even if the connection is rejected because
> the database has not been consistent yet. But pg_ctl with this patch treats
> that rejection as success of the standby starting and prints the above
> messages.
> 
> I agree to treat the receipt of password request from the server as success
> of the server starting. But I don't think that we should treat other rejection
> cases that way and change the existing behavior.

OK, that is easy to fix.  The only downside is that if you misconfigured
.pgpass (which is what I used for testing), you have to wait 60 seconds
to get the "cannot connect" error message.  Is that OK?

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