pg_ctl seems to be working for Windows now, except that there are occasional Windows file locking issues, especially on
restart- see below.
cheers
andrew
C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql>bin\pg_ctl -D data -l logfile restart
waiting for postmaster to shut down....done
postmaster stopped
postmaster starting
C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql>
C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql>
C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql>
C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql>
C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql>bin\pg_ctl -D data -l logfile restart
waiting for postmaster to shut down....done
postmaster stopped
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
Unable to run the postmaster binary