Re: Problem during Windows service start

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> Please find the proposed patch for review. I will attach it to
> commitfest as well

Pacemaker suffers the same thing. We suggest our customers that "start
server alone to perform recovery then start pacemaker if it is
expected to take a long time for recovery so that reaches time out".

I don't think it is good think to let status SERVICE_RUNNING although
it actually is not (yet). I think the right direction here is that, if
pg_ctl returns by timeout, pgwin32_ServiceMain kills the starting
server then report something like "timedout and server was stopped,
please make sure the server not to take a long time to perform
recovery.".

Thougts?

regards.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center