Re: BUG #5103: "pg_ctl -w (re)start" fails with custom unix_socket_directory

Michael Renner wrote:

> When using a non-standard unix_socket_directory setting, pg_ctl -w (re)start
> fails because it checks for the socket file to appear in it's default
> location.

Yeah, this has been discussed before.  It's been suggested that pg_ctl
should parse postgresql.conf to figure out the settings, but no one has
gotten around to it.  Feel free to give it a whirl if you're so inclined.

Hmm, another idea would be to have a new postmaster switch that would
report the value of any given configuration option.  So pg_ctl wouldn't
have to get into the business of parsing the config file, but would
simply ask postmaster for the value (which already knows how to parse
the file).

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