Re: pg_ctl strangeness under msys

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >Have you tried:
> >
> > pg_ctl start 2>/dev/tty
> >
> >that would force stderr to go to the tty. This might help because the
> >pg_ctl.c test is:
> >
> > if (!isatty(fileno(stderr))) /* Running as a service */
> >
> >
> >
>
> This was about status, not start.
>
> pg_ctl status 2>/dev/tty
>
> gives me the same thing as before. But only if the postmaster isn't
> running - if it is running I get the status as expected, because then we
> write to stdout rather than calling write_stderr() - I'm not sure I
> understand why we do that.

Yes, that is a bug that is fixed with the applied patch. We should
alway print status to stdout, even stopped status. We did that in 7.4
and should continue with that in 8.0.

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