Andrew Dunstan wrote: > 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?
OK, I updated the Win32 web page to mention we need a C version of pg_ctl. I don't think we will need pg_config once we have initdb in C, and I don't think it is worth doing initlocation because we need tablespaces. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
