Re: Re: BUG #5065: pg_ctl start fails as administrator, with "could not locate matching postgres executable"

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Jesse Morris <jmorris(at)coverity(dot)com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dave Page [mailto:dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org]
>> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 2:14 AM
>> To: Jesse Morris
>> Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> Subject: Re: [BUGS] Re: BUG #5065: pg_ctl start fails as
> administrator,
>> with "could not locate matching postgres executable"
>>
>> > The patch:
>> >
>> > ------begin patch------
>>
>> :-(. Unfortunately inlining the patch in the email has munged it
>> beyond usability. Can you resend it as an attachment please?
>
> Oops!  Re-sent, as an attachment.

Thanks. I've had a play with this, and it seems to work fine in 8.4.1
- at least, it doesn't seem to cause any regression that I can see
when testing in Vista or XP. I cannot reproduce the problem since I
wrote the original fix though, so I cannot confirm that this fixes any
new cases; we'll have to take your word for that :-)

The code around this has changed a little on -head. I don't have any
more spare cycles at the moment - are you able to produce an updated
patch for 8.5?

Andrew/Magnus; we do still see occasional failures of this nature, so
I believe there is still an issue here. Can we look at getting this
backpatched for 8.3.whatever and 8.4.2, assuming it looks good to you
as well?

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com