Re: Patch: Add launchd Support

On Oct 20, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> [ looks ... ]  Yeah, there's no mention of KeepAlive in 10.4's
> launchd.plist man page.  It does have a convenient example
> saying that OnDemand = false does what we want:

Yeah, let’s see if we can cover both.

> I'd just drop them into files in the data directory; we're still going
> to recommend that people use the logging_collector, so this is just a
> stopgap to collect startup errors.

How about this?

<plist version="1.0">

<dict><key>Disabled</key><false/><key>Label</key><string>org.postgresql.postgresql</string><key>UserName</key><string>postgres</string><key>GroupName</key><string>postgres</string><key>ProgramArguments</key><array>
  <string>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres</string>    <string>-D</string>
<string>/usr/local/pgsql/data</string></array>  <key>StandardOutPath</key>
<string>/usr/local/pgsql/data/launchd.log</string>  <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
<string>/usr/local/pgsql/data/launchd.log</string><key>OnDemand</key><!--OS X 10.4 --><false/><key>KeepAlive</key><!--
OSX 10.5+ --><true/> 
</dict>
</plist>

No fix for the networking issue, of course.

Best,

David