Neil Conway writes:
> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Doesn't seem like kill's exit code is going to tell you enough.
> > If you got, say, "Permission denied" rather than "No such process",
> > you shouldn't report that the postmaster isn't running.
>
> Ok, fair enough -- so is there any
Neil Conway wrote:
> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Doesn't seem like kill's exit code is going to tell you enough.
> > If you got, say, "Permission denied" rather than "No such process",
> > you shouldn't report that the postmaster isn't running.
>
> Ok, fair enough -- so is there any w
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Doesn't seem like kill's exit code is going to tell you enough.
> If you got, say, "Permission denied" rather than "No such process",
> you shouldn't report that the postmaster isn't running.
Ok, fair enough -- so is there any way to improve this behavior?
C
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After an unclean shutdown (e.g. a kernel crash), pg_ctl isn't smart
> enough to realize that it won't be able to successfully shut down the
> postmaster:
> $ pg_ctl -D /pgsql/data stop
> /pgsql/bin/pg_ctl: line 269: kill: (2039) - No such process
> waiting
