Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl reports succes when start fails

[Andrew Dunstan]

Tom Lane wrote:

Tommi Maekitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
 

I installed 7.4beta5, created a data-dir and tried to start postgresql with 
pg_ctl without initdb. As expected, this will fail. But pg_ctl tells me 
"postmaster successfully started", after a fatal error, which looks very 
confusing. When I use -l for specifying a logfile, I don't even see the 
error, but only the success-message.
   

If you don't use -w, then pg_ctl doesn't wait around to see whether the
postmaster started or not.  It'd probably be a good idea for it to issue
a less positive message in this case, maybe only "postmaster launched".
I also wonder why -w isn't the default.

 

It is for stop but not for start/restart, which does seem a bit odd.

On a slightly related note, I see that this is still a shell script, as 
are initlocation, ipcclean and pg_config. I assume these will have to be 
rewritten in C for the Win32 port?

cheers

andrew



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