Re: strange pg_ctl's behavior

Richard Huxton wrote:
> 
> Hmm - that does seem to be the case. I added a line to print "connstr" 
> along with the "."
>   waiting for server to start....dbname=postgres port=5483  -i
>   connect_timeout=5.
> 
> The code looks fine to my uneducated eye though (bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c 
> test_postmaster_connection starting at line 412. I think the issue must 
> be at lines 425..443)

Line 52:
#define WHITESPACE "\f\n\r\t\v" /* as defined by isspace() */

We've defined whitespace as not including a space character :-/

--   Richard Huxton  Archonet Ltd