Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > On 1/14/13 10:22 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Also it appears to me that the hunk at lines 812ff is changing the >> default behavior, which is not what the patch is advertised to do.
> True, I had forgotten to mention that. > Since it's already the behavior for start, another option would be to > just make it the default for stop as well and forget about the extra > options. I'm not sure whether there is a big use case for getting an > error code on stop if the server is already stopped. Actually, I seem to recall having had to hack Red Hat's initscript because the LSB standard requires that stopping a not-running server *not* be an error. So +1 for forgetting about the option entirely and just making it idempotent all the time. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers