Re: strange pg_ctl's behavior

Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have encountered a strange pg_ctl's behavior in 8.3.
> 
> pg_ctl -w -o "-p 5432" start    <-- works
> pg_ctl -w -o "-i" start    <-- works
> pg_ctl -w -o "-p 5432 -i" start    <-- doesn't work
> 
> In the last case, even postmaster starts successfully, pg_ctl keeps
> trying to make sure that postmaster actually started and continues to
> print "...".

It's not getting confused and thinking the port is "5432 -i" is it? I 
tried "-i -p 5432" and that seemed to work.

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