> "Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> writes:
> > ... It turns out pg_ctl is trying to compare
>
> > postmaster (PostgreSQL) 8.0.0\n <-- on the pg_ctl side
> > with
> > postmaster (PostgreSQL) 8.0.\n <-- on the postmaster side, read
from
> > popen with -V switch.
>
> I couldn't reproduce this on Linux. There is Windows-specific code in
> pipe_read_line(), which seems like it might be the root of the
problem,
> but I can't see anything obviously wrong with it.
Me neither. Maybe I'm just blowing smoke. I'll double and triple check
this though...if this is a real problem it obviously has to be fixed
before the release.
Merlin