Re: pgAdmin 1.12.0 (Mac OS X 10.5) Start Service instability

Am 2010-10-02 um 02:23 schrieb anton:

> I would like to report a strange instability issue when starting  
> PostgreSQL 9.0
> via pgAdmin in Mac OS X 10.5.  My Service command is defined as:
>
> sudo -u postgres /Library/PostgreSQL/9.0/bin/pg_ctl -D
> /Library/PostgreSQL/9.0/data
>
> Let's say the server is running and I enter pgAdmin.  Running?  
> correctly shows
> Yes.  If I right-click on the server and then Stop Service, the  
> server stops
> correctly and Running? correctly shows No.  If I then right-click  
> and try to
> Start Service, pgAdmin hangs indefinitely.  Via Terminal, executing  
> "sudo -u
> postgres /Library/PostgreSQL/9.0/bin/pg_ctl -D /Library/PostgreSQL/ 
> 9.0/data
> status" shows that the server is running, so pgAdmin did start it  
> correctly,
> even though it's still hanging.  Now, when I execute "sudo -u postgres
> /Library/PostgreSQL/9.0/bin/pg_ctl -D /Library/PostgreSQL/9.0/data  
> stop" and go
> back to pgAdmin, it actually stops hanging and resumes working  
> normally!  This
> is always repeatable.
>
> In summary, Start Service starts the server correctly, but never  
> gives control
> back to pgAdmin, which hangs until the server is stopped.

Does it help if you add "&" after your command (i.e. sending it into  
background)?


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