Re: Ctrl+C from sh can shut down daemonized PostgreSQL cluster

On 02/15/2014 02:25 AM, Greg Stark wrote:
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> On 14 Feb 2014 23:07, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
> <mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>> wrote:
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> > If this is, as it sounds to be, a Solaris shell bug, doesn't it
> > affect other daemons too?
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> This is simmering i never exactly followed but i think if the shell
> doesn't support job control it's expected behaviour, not a bug. Only
> shells that support job control create new process groups for every
> backgrounded command.
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> I would have expected if I run postgres myself that it be attached to
> the terminal and die when I C-c it but if it's started by pg_ctl I
> would have thought it was running independently of my terminal and shell.
>
In this case maybe it is pg_ctl which should do the deamoinizing ?

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