"Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> writes:
> ... It turns out pg_ctl is trying to compare
> postmaster (PostgreSQL) 8.0.0\n <-- on the pg_ctl side
> with
> postmaster (PostgreSQL) 8.0.\n <-- on the postmaster side, read from
> popen with -V switch.
I couldn't reproduce this on Linux. There is Windows-specific code in
pipe_read_line(), which seems like it might be the root of the problem,
but I can't see anything obviously wrong with it.
regards, tom lane