Re: pg_ctl restart - behaviour based on wrong instance

On Wednesday, October 12, 2011, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > I looked over this issue and I don't thinking having pg_ctl restart fall
> > back to 'start' is a good solution. ?I am concerned about cases where we
> > start a different server without shutting down the old server, for some
> > reason. ?When they say 'restart', I think we have to assume they want a
> > restart.
> >
> > What I did do was to document that not backing up postmaster.pid and
> > postmaster.opts might help prevent pg_ctl from getting confused.
>
> Should we exclude postmaster.opts from streaming base backups? We
> already exclude postmaster.pid...

Uh, I think so, unless my analysis was wrong.

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