Re: [BUGS] pg_ctl restart issue with relative paths

2012-10-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 09:56:46AM -0700, Josh Kupershmidt wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Thom Brown wrote: > > > I have noticed that, using pg_ctl, if you start Postgres using a > > relative path, then attempt to restart it from anywhere else, it > > fails. > > Yeah, I was complainin

Re: [BUGS] pg_ctl restart issue with relative paths

2012-10-14 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Kupershmidt writes: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Thom Brown wrote: >> I have noticed that, using pg_ctl, if you start Postgres using a >> relative path, then attempt to restart it from anywhere else, it >> fails. > Yeah, I was complaining about the same problem here: > http://archiv

Re: [BUGS] pg_ctl restart issue with relative paths

2012-10-14 Thread Josh Kupershmidt
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Thom Brown wrote: > I have noticed that, using pg_ctl, if you start Postgres using a > relative path, then attempt to restart it from anywhere else, it > fails. Yeah, I was complaining about the same problem here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2011-

[BUGS] pg_ctl restart issue with relative paths

2012-10-13 Thread Thom Brown
Hi, I have noticed that, using pg_ctl, if you start Postgres using a relative path, then attempt to restart it from anywhere else, it fails. Example: thom@swift /tmp $ pg_ctl -D primary start server starting thom@swift /tmp $ pg_ctl -D primary restart waiting for server to shut down done ser