Re: "pg_ctl promote" exit status

On 1/26/13 4:44 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote:
> You are right. Had I read a little further down, it seems that the
> exit status should actually be 7.

7 is OK for "not running", but what should we use when the server is not
in standby mode?  Using the idempotent argument that we are discussing
for the stop action, promoting a server that is not a standby should be
a noop and exit successfully.  Not sure if that is what we want, though.