> >>Are we now in a state where it would make sense to look at doing
> >>pg_ctl
> >>in C?
> >
> > Why bother? I should think that Windows users want to run PG as a
> > service.
>
> Except when a non administrator wants to run his own PG instance.
This is one of the reasons why a pg_ctl is still needed. The other is if
you run the server in debugging on the commandline. You can shut it down
with Ctrl-C, but you can't send signals to reload etc.
//Magnus