Re: postgresql-[any version] from FreeBSD ports - startup problems after crash - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: postgresql-[any version] from FreeBSD ports - startup problems after crash
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Msg-id 11564.1147720331@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: postgresql-[any version] from FreeBSD ports - startup problems after crash  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
Responses Re: postgresql-[any version] from FreeBSD ports - startup problems after crash  ("Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org>)
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"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> Except that the shell that's running su would be root, not pgsql, at
> least in the case of FreeBSD. The guts of the current port's rc.d file
> are:

> su -l ${postgresql_user} -c "exec ${command} ${command_args} ${rc_arg}"

Yeah, but what's the ${command} ?

If it's pg_ctl then all he's missing is the recent change to check
getppid.  If it's execing postmaster directly then maybe we need
another theory.

            regards, tom lane

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