Re: Service startup delay

OK, I started running tests with pg_ctl -w and found it did not work
even on Unix. I found that the code was not checking the return value
of PQsetdbLogin(), and wasn't looping properly using a sleep.

The attached applied patch should fix should fix your reported problem.

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Max Dunn wrote:
> I tried adding the "-w" option to the registry entry for starting the
> Postgres service(see below) but it didn't help; Tomcat still started before
> Postgres was ready:
>
> c:\Program Files\Xythos\WebFile Server Evaluation\pgsql\bin>sc qc postgresql
> [SC] GetServiceConfig SUCCESS
>
> SERVICE_NAME: postgresql
> TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
> START_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START
> ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL
> BINARY_PATH_NAME : C:/Program Files/Xythos/WebFile Server
> Evaluation/p
> gsql/bin/pg_ctl.exe runservice -w -N "PostgreSQL" -D "C:/Program
> Files/Xythos/We
> bFile Server Evaluation/pgsql/data" -o "-i"
> LOAD_ORDER_GROUP :
> TAG : 0
> DISPLAY_NAME : PostgreSQL
> DEPENDENCIES : RPCSS
> SERVICE_START_NAME : .\postgres
>
> --Max
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Page [mailto:dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 4:09 PM
> To: Bruce Momjian; Barry Lind
> Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org; Max Dunn
> Subject: RE: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Service startup delay
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-hackers-win32-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > [mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Bruce
> > Momjian
> > Sent: 20 August 2004 19:00
> > To: Barry Lind
> > Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org; Max Dunn
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Service startup delay
> >
> >
> > I think you need to use 'pg_ctl -w' to wait for it to start.
> >
>
> Does -w work when starting in service mode? Aside from that, one possible
> problem with this is what happens if the database goes into recovery mode at
> startup. Whilst waiting for that to run, I would think it's possible that
> the service control manager would timeout waiting for the service to
> complete startup.
>
> Regards, Dave.
>
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