Re: Fw: patch for pg_ctl.c to add windows service start-type

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 04:40, Itagaki Takahiro
<itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi, I have a question about the latest patch.
>
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Quan Zongliang
> <quanzongliang(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> New patch attached. How about this?
>>> I don't see us ever using anything other than auto or demand. The
>>> others aren't for "regular services"
>
> + set_starttype(char *starttypeopt)
> + {
> +       if (strcmp(starttypeopt, "a") == 0 || strcmp(starttypeopt, "auto") == 0)
> +               pgctl_start_type = SERVICE_AUTO_START;
> +       else if (strcmp(starttypeopt, "d") == 0 || strcmp(starttypeopt,
> "demand") == 0)
> +               pgctl_start_type = SERVICE_DEMAND_START;
>
> It accepts only "a" and "auto" for auto, but "au" or "aut" are rejected.
> Is is an intended behavior?  I think we can use prefix match here because
> we use the logic in some places. For example,

I think it's modeled on what we allow for the "-m" parameter, and ISTM
it's good to keep those consistent.

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