Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Blind attempt at a Cygwin fix

On 01/08/2016 11:17 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Obviously this wasn't the best idea ever.  Andrew suggests on IM to
>>> revert this on Cygwin to just do the "isatty" check as originally.
>> Here's a proposed patch.  Thoughts?
> Ugly, but it will hold the fort until someone can debug the service
> code for Cygwin.
>
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I downloaded the official Cygwin packages into a Cygwin instance and 
checked how they do things. As I rather expected, they do not use pg_ctl 
at all to install or run as a service. Rather, they use the standard 
Cygwin service utility cygrunsrv. This is all managed via a SYSV style 
init script.

So if anything I'd be inclined to disable all the service-related code 
in pg_ctl for Cygwin, and treat it just as we treat Unix.

cheers

andrew