On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 00:54, Tom Lane wrote:
> Arguile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Simplest case to test is:
> > pg_ctl start -D /valid/db/dir -l /invalid/dir
> > pg_ctl: /invalid/dir: No such file or directory
> > postmaster successfully started
>
> > Postmaster hasn't started and the error could probably use some work.
>
> If you don't specify -w then pg_ctl only launches the postmaster,
> it does not wait around to see if the postmaster really fired up
> sucessfully. If there's a bug here, it's only that -w isn't the
> default behavior.
Oops. You can tell how often I start Pg by hand ;). Sorry for the
bother.
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