On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 at 11:02, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I mostly just wanted to say that I disagreed with Tom about the > particular point on postmaster.pid, without really expressing an > opinion about anything else.
I don't object to using the pid file as the mechanism -- but it is a bit of an awkward UI for shell scripting. I imagine it would be handy if pg_ctl had an option to just print the port number so you could get it with a simple port=`pg_ctl -D <dir> status-port` -- greg
