severity 492843 minor. thanks Hi Dimitri,
Dimitri [2008-07-29 11:52 +0200]: > The pg_ctlcluster does not allow to use all pg_ctl options, the -m > option in particular is much needed. User reports failure to stop or > restart their PostgreSQL server with /etc/init.d scripts, and > resorting to pg_ctlcluster is not helping at all. You can use --force with stop or restart to use -m fast -> -m immediate -> kill, so that most important bit is provided already. > Even worse, debian packaging makes /usr/lib/postgresql/8.X/bin/pg_ctl > tool non-usable, as it's unaware of where to find the .pid and the > .conf files given the PGDATA var (/var/lib/postgres/8.X/main/data). That's indeed a known problem of pg_ctl not reading postgresql.conf properly. It should ideally work with /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/pg_ctl -D /etc/postgresql/8.3/main stop but pg_ctl doesn't read the data_directory directive. That's one case where it is inconvenient to mix the upstream tools (pg_ctl and initdb) and Debian tools (pg_createcluster, pg_ctlcluster). As long as you stick in just one set, it works reasonably well IMHO. Thus I downgrade this to 'minor'. > Please export all pg_ctl options to pg_ctlcluster wrapper script in a > way allowing the user to effectively control its debian PostgreSQL > clusters. Yes, I'll provide an option to feed additional options to pg_ctl. However, that's a new feature which isn't appropriate any more for Lenny (which is frozen for release preparations already), thus I postpone this until after Lenny. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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