Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On m?n, 2011-10-03 at 15:09 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Why were people not using pg_ctl?
>
> Actually, a slight correction/addition here: The Debian init script does
> use pg_ctl to start the service. Seems to work fine.
Yes. The script authors discovered a working behavior, which matches my
research:
pg_ctl start specify config directory pg_ctl -w start impossible pg_ctl restart
impossible pg_ctl stop specify real data dir pg_ctl -w stop specify real data
dir pg_ctl reload specify real data dir
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