Re: Documentation/Behavior: Systemd Type=notify failure with pg_ctl on Debian 12

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On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 1:10 AM PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
wrote:

> The documentation regarding Systemd integration (specifically when using
> `pg_ctl` combined with `Type=notify`) might be incomplete.
>

Such documentation is nonexistent, not incomplete. The provided unit file
for systemd doesn't use pg_ctl, I suppose presumably for this or a similar
reason. It uses the postgres binary directly.

Such, I'm not seeing a bug here (I suppose a comment pointing out that/why
pg_ctl is not used might be in order). I'm not opposed to possibly adding
more detail or alternatives to this part of the documentation - though the
number of people doing their own unit files is few compared to those using
ones bundled in a package - but the lack or responders seems to suggest
such effort is not high on anyone's list.

David J.