Re: postgresql-[any version] from FreeBSD ports - startup problems after crash

From: "Larry Rosenman" <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
To: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jim Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: "'Ruslan A Dautkhanov'" <rusland(at)scn(dot)ru>, <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgresql-[any version] from FreeBSD ports - startup problems after crash
Date: 2006-05-15 19:20:51
Message-ID: 00d001c67854$ade1cc00$aa0610ac@aus.pervasive.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> writes:
>> Except that the shell that's running su would be root, not pgsql, at
>> least in the case of FreeBSD. The guts of the current port's rc.d
>> file are:
>
>> su -l ${postgresql_user} -c "exec ${command} ${command_args}
>> ${rc_arg}"
>
> Yeah, but what's the ${command} ?
>
> If it's pg_ctl then all he's missing is the recent change to check
> getppid. If it's execing postmaster directly then maybe we need
> another theory.

It's pg_ctl....

command=${prefix}/bin/pg_ctl

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