Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl changes

[Lamar Owen]

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I've implemented the following changes in pg_ctl:
[snip]
> This should make pg_ctl a lot more suitable for startup scripts and
> overall.  If this is okay then I'll also try to merge the contrib/linux
> and contrib/init.d scripts and reflect these changes there.

Sounds good to me.  It appears that you haven't checked in your changes
to CVS as of a few minutes ago, but I like the looks of what you've
posted.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11

Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl changes

[Tom Lane]

Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've implemented the following changes in pg_ctl:

Sounds good to me.

> * Add -l option to name log file.  If the option is omitted, then the
> postmaster log goes to stdout, so you can use 'pg_ctl ... > log' and still
> get pg_ctl's stderr on the terminal.

Let's see if I've got this straight --- the postmaster's stdout and
stderr go to the -l file (by default pg_ctl's stdout), while pg_ctl's
own stderr is kept separate for failure notices?  That seems like it
will work ... in particular one could imagine doing
pg_ctl start | log_splitter_process
to handle log rotation stuff.

regards, tom lane