| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Ryan Murphy <ryanfmurphy(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Clarifying "server starting" messaging in pg_ctl start without --wait |
| Date: | 2016-12-20 20:45:41 |
| Message-ID: | 20161220204541.GA22538@fetter.org |
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 03:43:11PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 12/20/16 3:31 PM, Ryan Murphy wrote:
> > I'm concerned some new users may not understand this behavior of pg_ctl,
> > so I wanted to suggest that we add some additional messaging after
> > "server starting" - something like:
> >
> > $ pg_ctl -D datadir -l logfile start
> > server starting
> > (to wait for confirmation that server actually started, try pg_ctl again
> > with --wait)
>
> Maybe the fix is to make --wait the default?
+1
It's not super useful to have the prompt return while the server is
still starting up.
Best,
David.
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