Re: v10 pg_ctl compatibility

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> 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?
>

CentOS release 6.9 (Final)

The sever log file (9.6) says:

64926 2017-09-26 13:56:38.284 PDT LOG: database system was shut down
at 2017-09-26 13:56:37 PDT
64926 2017-09-26 13:56:38.299 PDT LOG: MultiXact member wraparound
protections are now enabled
64930 2017-09-26 13:56:38.311 PDT LOG: autovacuum launcher started
64924 2017-09-26 13:56:38.313 PDT LOG: database system is ready to
accept connections
... hit ctrl-C
64924 2017-09-26 13:56:47.237 PDT LOG: received fast shutdown request
64924 2017-09-26 13:56:47.237 PDT LOG: aborting any active transactions
64930 2017-09-26 13:56:47.244 PDT LOG: autovacuum launcher shutting
down
64927 2017-09-26 13:56:47.261 PDT LOG: shutting down
...

I can try a different platform (ubuntu 16.04, probably) tonight and see if
it does the same thing.

Cheers,

Jeff