Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > > pg_ctl.c::test_postmaster_connection() has some fragile code that tries > > to detect the server port number by looking in the pg_ctl -o string, > > It may be fragile, but it works; or at least I've not heard complaints > about it lately.
True. > > I think a simpler solution would be to look in postmaster.pid: > > pg_ctl already knows the data directory. If the file is missing, the > > server is not running. If the file exists, the first number on the last > > line, divided by 1000, is the port number. > > That's somewhere between fragile and outright wrong. Please explain why my idea is not an improvement. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
