Re: pg_ctl is fragile

Neil Conway wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Doesn't seem like kill's exit code is going to tell you enough.
> > If you got, say, "Permission denied" rather than "No such process",
> > you shouldn't report that the postmaster isn't running.
>
> Ok, fair enough -- so is there any way to improve this behavior?

Seems we could grab some of kill's stderr and grep it for "No such":

$ kill -0 32323
bash: kill: (32323) - No such pid

Probably can't hurt.

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