On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 17:34 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Maybe hack the postmaster to have a new special connection mode which > keeps the connection open until the startup process exits, to avoid > polling continuously (ideally report progress too, if at all > possible).
That sounds good to me. The spurious connection messages look weird and its difficult to say that's one of the ERRORs that isn't an error. There has to be a way for pg_ctl to ask whether the server is still starting up without causing a message every second in the server log. -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster