Re: Postgres 10 and the pg_ctl "--wait" option

This seems to be different behaviour between pg9.5 and pg10. Pg9.5 does not
give a connection error once "pg_ctl --wait ..." finishes. So I've moved
this to the pgsql-bugs list.

Greg

On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 at 17:04 Greg k <gregg(dot)kay(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> In PostreSql 10, the documentation for pg_ctl and the "--wait" option says
> "Startup is considered complete when the PID file indicates that the server
> is ready to accept connections."
>
> When I do a point-in-time recovery followed by a start with
> "/usr/pgsql-10/bin/pg_ctl start -D /data -w -t 86400", I then try to
> connect immediately after pg_ctl finishes. But I get a connection error
> "psql: FATAL: the database system is starting up" . It seems the
> postmaster.pid file state goes from 'starting' to 'standby' to 'ready' but
> pg_ctl is saying the server is ready to accept connections when the
> postmaster.pid file says 'standby'. Am I misunderstanding the documentation?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>