Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:37:07AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > > > Seems to me that you could just do this by setting stdin to be > > > /dev/null? > > > > No, because the simple_prompt code makes a point of reading from > > /dev/tty. > > Sure, but that would fail for any process which has detached from the > terminal. The backup is stdin, which you can also setup. > > Admittedly, the OP may not be in a position to setup the environment in > such a way as to make it work, which means that such an option may be > worthwhile... > > If it's going to be an option, I'd suggest something like --daemon-mode > since it's entirely possible other issues tmay come up later that might > need this kind of attention.
So did we get anywhere with this? I'd propose something like --non-interactive rather than --daemon-mode. Was there a patch submitted? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
