Greg Stark wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > Because pg_ctl 9.1 will read postmaster.pid and find the port number, > > socket location, and listen host for wait mode --- I doubt someone would > > do that work in a script. > > But this is the whole difference between them. An init.d script > *shouldn't* do all that. It *knows* how the system daemon is > configured and should only be used to start and stop that process. And > it can't wait, it's not an interactive tool, it has to implement the > standard init.d interface. > > An interactive tool can dwim automatically but that isn't appropriate > for a startup script. A startupt script should always do the same > thing exactly and do that based on the OS policy, not based on > inspecting what programs are actually running on the machine.
I agree, except the Gentoo script does exactly that --- wait for completion using pg_ctl -w. -- 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
