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

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 
> 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.

Agreed.  If you remove that, the logical problem goes away and it
becomes a simple problem of dumping the contents of postgresql.conf and
having pg_ctl (and pg_upgrade) use that.  Let me look at how much code
that would take.

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