Re: A Sparc/Linux patch (for 7.1), and a Linux rc.d/init.d script....

Applied.

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > >     postgres-7-sparc.patch -> This is the same one I posted earlier to
> > > hackers and ports, forgot to post it to patches. This fixes the resultmap
> > > for sparc-linux so that all regression tests pass.
> >
> > Already applied.
>
>     Great! Just never saw a confirmation (may have missed it) of my
> first post. Also verified it is in beta4, and all regression
> tests now pass on Sparc/Linux. :)
>
> > >     postgresql -> This is a Linux distribution independent (or so I
> > > hope) init.d/rc.d script that makes use of pg_ctl. There is currently a
> > > few in ./contrib/linux of the pgsql source tree, but they are RedHat
> > > specific. This one is simple and self contained. Might be worth adding to
> > > the other scripts.
> >
> > Added to /contrib as init.d.
>
>     Please replace with the one attached to this email message. The
> previous version depended on the below patch, this one does not. It is
> also a bit cleaner and has a few more helpful comments.
>
> > >     pg_ctl.patch -> Minor patch required by postgresql script above.
> > > It basically just allows you to specify the -o option (postmaster options)
> > > more than once and all of them will be concatenated together. Makes it
> > > easier to do '-o -F -o -i', then to try and shell escape quotes in a shell
> > > script. Should be harmless, and might be handy.
> >
> > This doesn't seem like a good idea.  It makes -o handling different for
> > different utilities.
>
>     Hmm... Didn't know other utils used that option. Maybe use the
> '--' option for pg_ctl passing postmaster options, i.e. 'pg_ctl start --
> -F -i'. Of course that is a bit more major of a change to the code that I
> will leave as an exercise to others. With the revised version of the
> init.d script attached, the pg_ctl patch is immaterial.
>     Thanks and TTYL.
>
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