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

Greg Stark wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Because pg_ctl 9.1 will read postmaster.pid and find the port number,
> > socket location, and listen host for wait mode --- I doubt someone would
> > do that work in a script.
> 
> But this is the whole difference between them. An init.d script
> *shouldn't* do all that. It *knows* how the system daemon is
> configured and should only be used to start and stop that process. And
> it can't wait, it's not an interactive tool, it has to implement the
> standard init.d interface.
> 
> An interactive tool can dwim automatically but that isn't appropriate
> for a startup script. A startupt script should always do the same
> thing exactly and do that based on the OS policy, not based on
> inspecting what programs are actually running on the machine.

I agree, except the Gentoo script does exactly that --- wait for
completion using pg_ctl -w.

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