On Wednesday, October 12, 2011, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > I looked over this issue and I don't thinking having pg_ctl restart > fall > > > back to 'start' is a good solution. ?I am concerned about cases where > we > > > start a different server without shutting down the old server, for some > > > reason. ?When they say 'restart', I think we have to assume they want a > > > restart. > > > > > > What I did do was to document that not backing up postmaster.pid and > > > postmaster.opts might help prevent pg_ctl from getting confused. > > > > Should we exclude postmaster.opts from streaming base backups? We > > already exclude postmaster.pid... > > Uh, I think so, unless my analysis was wrong. > > Ok, fixed and applied.
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