2013/1/14 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: >>>> Here is a patch to add an option -I/--idempotent to pg_ctl, the result >>>> of which is that pg_ctl doesn't error on start or stop if the server is >>>> already running or already stopped. > >>> Idempotent is a ten-dollar word. Can we find something that average >>> people wouldn't need to consult a dictionary to understand? > >> --no-error perhaps? > > Meh, that's probably going too far in the direction of imprecision. > The point of this patch is that only very specific errors are > suppressed. > > I don't have a better idea though. It'd be easier if there were > separate switches for the two cases, then you could call them > --ok-if-running and --ok-if-stopped. But that's not very workable, > if only because both would want the same single-letter abbreviation.
--ignore-status --ignore-status-start --ignore-status-stop ? Regards -- Dickson S. Guedes mail/xmpp: gue...@guedesoft.net - skype: guediz http://guedesoft.net - http://www.postgresql.org.br -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
