Re: pg_ctl idempotent option

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_ctl idempotent option
Date: 2013-01-15 15:51:53
Message-ID: 50F57B19.8070807@gmx.net
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On 1/14/13 10:22 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Also it appears to me that the hunk at lines 812ff is changing the
> default behavior, which is not what the patch is advertised to do.

True, I had forgotten to mention that.

Since it's already the behavior for start, another option would be to
just make it the default for stop as well and forget about the extra
options. I'm not sure whether there is a big use case for getting an
error code on stop if the server is already stopped.

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