On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 03:43:11PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 12/20/16 3:31 PM, Ryan Murphy wrote: > > I'm concerned some new users may not understand this behavior of pg_ctl, > > so I wanted to suggest that we add some additional messaging after > > "server starting" - something like: > > > > $ pg_ctl -D datadir -l logfile start > > server starting > > (to wait for confirmation that server actually started, try pg_ctl again > > with --wait) > > Maybe the fix is to make --wait the default?
+1 It's not super useful to have the prompt return while the server is still starting up. Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david(dot)fetter(at)gmail(dot)com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
