On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote: >> At least the reference to section 31.14 is needless since password >> authentication doesn't affect the pg_ctl -w for now. But, on the second >> thought, it can still fail because of miss-configuration of connection >> variable, for example PGHOST. > > I thought PQping() was supposed to handle that correctly. There are > four return values: PQPING_OK, PQPING_REJECT, PQPING_NO_RESPONSE, > PQPING_NO_ATTEMPT. I believe the last is intended to cover blatant > misconfiguration.
True. But even though the server is running normally, the misconfiguration might still make PQping return PQPING_NO_ATTEMPT and make pg_ctl -w fail to wait for complete startup. Currently misconfiguration of password authentication doesn't interfere with pg_ctl -w, so we can remove the reference to that. But other misconfigurations can be still harm, so I thought the sentence still needs to be in the document. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
