Re: multi-install PostgresNode fails with older postgres versions

On 2021-Mar-31, Mark Dilger wrote:

> PostgresNode::start() doesn't work for servers older than version 10,
> either.  If I hack that function to sleep until the postmaster.pid
> file exists, it works, but that is really ugly and is just to prove to
> myself that it is a timing issue.  There were a few commits in the
> version 10 development cycle (cf, commit
> f13ea95f9e473a43ee4e1baeb94daaf83535d37c) which changed how pg_ctl
> works, though I haven't figured out yet exactly what the interaction
> with PostgresNode would be.  I'll keep looking.

Do you need to do "pg_ctl -w" perhaps?

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Álvaro Herrera       Valdivia, Chile