Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> To add insult to injury, when v10 pg_ctl does restart a pre-10 server and
> it sits there for a long time waiting for it to start up even though it has
> already started up, if I hit ctrl-C because I assume something is horribly
> wrong, it then goes ahead and kills the successfully started-and-running
> server.
Really? The server should have detached itself from your terminal
group long before that. What platform is this?
regards, tom lane