Re: [HACKERS] Re: Clarifying "server starting" messaging in pg_ctlstart without --wait

On 1/17/17 8:35 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Yeah, it seems to me that we are likely looking for a wait mode saying
> to exit pg_ctl once Postgres is happily rejecting connections, because
> that means that it is up and that it is sorting out something first
> before accepting them. This would basically filter the states in the
> control file that we find as acceptable if the connection test
> continues complaining about PQPING_REJECT.

Note that you can still use pg_ctl start --no-wait if that is what you
want.  But that should be the exception.

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