| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Mr(dot) Aaron W(dot) Swenson" <titanofold(at)gentoo(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Bug with pg_ctl -w/wait and config-only directories |
| Date: | 2011-10-05 00:32:43 |
| Message-ID: | 5440.1317774763@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> As of fairly recently, the Fedora package also uses pg_ctl for both
>> starting and stopping. We've fixed all the reasons that formerly
>> existed to avoid use of pg_ctl, and it's a real PITA to try to
>> implement the waiting logic at shell level.
> OK, that's a good use-case to warrant barrelling ahead with improving
> pg_ctl for config-only installs.
Did I say that? The Fedora packages don't support config-only
arrangements (if you tried, SELinux would likely deny access to whatever
directory you chose ...)
> What releases do we want to apply that
> patch to allow postgres to dump config values and have pg_ctl use them?
> This patch is required for old/new installs for pg_upgrade to work.
I still think this is a matter for HEAD only. We haven't supported
these cases in back branches and so there is little argument for
back-patching.
regards, tom lane
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