Re: Bug with pg_ctl -w/wait and config-only directories

Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of lun oct 03 17:28:53 -0300 2011:
> 
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > Well, we have the Gentoo developer in this very thread.  I'm sure they
> > would fix their command line if we gave them a pg_ctl that worked.
> > Surely the package that contains the init script also contains pg_ctl,
> > so they would both be upgraded simultaneously.
> 
> What is the fix?  If they started the server by using --data-directory,
> pg_ctl stop has no way to find the postmaster.pid file, and hence stop
> the server.  Are you suggesting we remove this ability?

I am suggesting they don't start it by using --data-directory in the
first place.

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