On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:42:42AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > On m?n, 2011-10-03 at 18:44 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Agreed. You could argue that pg_ctl 9.1 is much better than anything > > > anyone would be able to craft in a script. > > > > And what facts support that argument? > > Because pg_ctl 9.1 will read postmaster.pid and find the port number, > socket location, and listen host for wait mode --- I doubt someone would > do that work in a script.
I don't know why we chose pg_ctl, but I chose to stick with pg_ctl over rolling my own precisely because of that. pg_ctl does all sorts of fancy things that would have taken me a much longer time than figuring out a way to allow a configuration-only directory and a data-only directory. -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Gentoo Linux Developer Email : titanof...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C 0E31 5713 AA03 D1BB FDA0 GnuPG ID : D1BBFDA0
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