"pg_ctl -w" does not return a failure exit code when postmaster fails to start
I have noticed on linux that if you try to start postmaster via "pg_ctl
-w", but the postmaster fails to run (e.g. if you forgot to create
PGDATA), it returns a 0 exit code. It needs to return a non-0 exit code
if postmaster failed to start, when you are using the "-w" option to wait
for it to start.
Thanks,
Steve McWilliams
Steve McWilliams wrote:
I have noticed on linux that if you try to start postmaster via "pg_ctl
-w", but the postmaster fails to run (e.g. if you forgot to create
PGDATA), it returns a 0 exit code. It needs to return a non-0 exit code
if postmaster failed to start, when you are using the "-w" option to wait
for it to start.
OK, this small applied patch fixes the problem. pg_ctl.c is a new file
in 8.0 so we didn't hit all the return values correctly on our first
try.
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