Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun oct 03 12:34:22 -0300 2011:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > I am starting to question the value of config-only directories if pg_ctl
> > stop doesn't work, or you have to specify a different directory for
> > start and stop.
>
> Yup.
>
> > Did we not think of these things when we designed config-only
> > directories? I don't even see this problem mentioned in our
> > documentation.
>
> Yeah, we did. The people who were lobbying for the feature didn't care,
> or possibly thought that somebody would fix it for them later.
I think the main proponents are the Debian guys, and they don't use
pg_ctl because they have their own pg_ctlcluster.
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