Re: Bug with pg_ctl -w/wait and config-only directories

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Greg Stark wrote:
>> An interactive tool can dwim automatically but that isn't appropriate
>> for a startup script. A startupt script should always do the same
>> thing exactly and do that based on the OS policy, not based on
>> inspecting what programs are actually running on the machine.

> I agree, except the Gentoo script does exactly that --- wait for
> completion using pg_ctl -w.

As of fairly recently, the Fedora package also uses pg_ctl for both
starting and stopping.  We've fixed all the reasons that formerly
existed to avoid use of pg_ctl, and it's a real PITA to try to
implement the waiting logic at shell level.
        regards, tom lane