Re: bug report: 7.4beta3 pg_ctl log handling

Arguile <arguile@lucentstudios.com> writes:
> Simplest case to test is:
>     pg_ctl start -D /valid/db/dir -l /invalid/dir
>     pg_ctl: /invalid/dir: No such file or directory
>     postmaster successfully started

> Postmaster hasn't started and the error could probably use some work.

If you don't specify -w then pg_ctl only launches the postmaster,
it does not wait around to see if the postmaster really fired up
sucessfully.  If there's a bug here, it's only that -w isn't the
default behavior.

            regards, tom lane