From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Problem with tcp/ip connection, postgresql.conf |
Date: | 2003-06-23 04:23:44 |
Message-ID: | 200306230423.h5N4Ni324624@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Add to TODO:
* Exit postmaster if postgresql.conf can not be opened
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 11:50, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > While experimenting with this, I noted that the postmaster will not
> > complain if postgresql.conf is not found --- though it will complain if
> > it finds the file but can't read it (eg permission failures). It seems
> > to me this is a bug, or at any rate a bad idea. There should be at least
> > a warning message if the postgresql.conf file isn't found, and quite
> > possibly the postmaster should refuse to start at all, on the grounds
> > that you may have pointed it to a a bogus data directory.
> >
> > Any opinions about this out there?
> >
>
> IIRC this was going to be addressed in the "option to put config files
> anywhere" patch. if not it should at least issue a warning. I'd
> actually be in favor of explicit error/refusal to start if it didn't
> seem so draconian.
>
> Robert Treat
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> TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
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