On 08/23/2012 12:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> ... I really can't take responsibility for any of this since
>> I don't have a Windows development environment. One of the Windows-
>> hacking committers needs to pick this issue up. Anyone?
> [ crickets ]
>
> I guess everybody who might take an interest in this is out sailing...
>
> After further reflection I've realized that, while this is a new bug in
> 9.2, it is not really a regression from 9.1. The failure only occurs if
> pg_ctl is pointed at a configuration-only directory (one that contains
> postgresql.conf but is not the real data directory). But that is a case
> that did not work at all in any previous release, so no users will be
> relying on it.
>
> Accordingly, I don't think this is a release-blocker, so I'm going to
> move it to the non-blocker section of the open-items page.
>
> Anybody who wants to fix it is surely welcome to, but I'm not going
> to consider this item as a reason to postpone RC1.
>
>
I'm not sure what you want done. I can test Amit's patch in a couple of
Windows environments (say XP+mingw and W7+MSVC) if that's what you need.
cheers
andrew