Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> As of fairly recently, the Fedora package also uses pg_ctl for both >> starting and stopping. We've fixed all the reasons that formerly >> existed to avoid use of pg_ctl, and it's a real PITA to try to >> implement the waiting logic at shell level.
> OK, that's a good use-case to warrant barrelling ahead with improving > pg_ctl for config-only installs. Did I say that? The Fedora packages don't support config-only arrangements (if you tried, SELinux would likely deny access to whatever directory you chose ...) > What releases do we want to apply that > patch to allow postgres to dump config values and have pg_ctl use them? > This patch is required for old/new installs for pg_upgrade to work. I still think this is a matter for HEAD only. We haven't supported these cases in back branches and so there is little argument for back-patching. 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