| From: | "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: CVS Head: Pg_ctl bug? |
| Date: | 2005-08-29 19:58:14 |
| Message-ID: | 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE0946C8@algol.sollentuna.se |
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> > I just noticed that if I don't specify a data directory
> either on the
> > command line or in $PGDATA,, pg_ctl fails silently on
> Windows (haven't
> > been able to test other platforms atm). Is this a bug or an
> oversight
> > - an error message would seem appropriate?
>
> On my machine it does this:
>
> $ bin/pg_ctl start
> pg_ctl: no database directory specified and environment
> variable PGDATA unset Try "pg_ctl --help" for more information.
> $
>
> Is write_stderr() broken on Windows?
In some cases it writes to the eventlog instead of stderr. Dave, can you
check if this is what's happening to you?
//Magnus
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