Re: pg_ctl configurable timeout

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 17:34 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Maybe hack the postmaster to have a new special connection mode which
> keeps the connection open until the startup process exits, to avoid
> polling continuously (ideally report progress too, if at all
> possible).

That sounds good to me. The spurious connection messages look weird and
its difficult to say that's one of the ERRORs that isn't an error. There
has to be a way for pg_ctl to ask whether the server is still starting
up without causing a message every second in the server log.

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