Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of lun oct 03 17:28:53 -0300 2011: > > > > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > > Well, we have the Gentoo developer in this very thread. I'm sure they > > > would fix their command line if we gave them a pg_ctl that worked. > > > Surely the package that contains the init script also contains pg_ctl, > > > so they would both be upgraded simultaneously. > > > > What is the fix? If they started the server by using --data-directory, > > pg_ctl stop has no way to find the postmaster.pid file, and hence stop > > the server. Are you suggesting we remove this ability? > > I am suggesting they don't start it by using --data-directory in the > first place.
Agreed. If you remove that, the logical problem goes away and it becomes a simple problem of dumping the contents of postgresql.conf and having pg_ctl (and pg_upgrade) use that. Let me look at how much code that would take. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
