On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Aaron W. Swenson <aaron.w.swen...@gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > According to Linux Standard Base Core Specification 3.1 [1], the exit > status should be '3' when the server isn't running. > > I've attached a very simple patch that resolves this cosmetic issue, > which applies to all branches. > > My initial search regarding other platforms has turned up nil. It looks > like they just check for a zero or non-zero exit status. > > As for the necessity of the patch: Gentoo Linux uses pg_ctl in all of > its initscript actions for PostgreSQL. I'd imagine that Gentoo is not > the only distribution that takes advantage of pg_ctl for its initscript > actions.
I'd be disinclined to back-patch this as it might break things for people. But I see no harm in applying it to master, if nobody objects... -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
