On mån, 2011-10-03 at 11:27 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Frankly, I am confused how this breakage has gone unreported for so
> long.
Well, nobody is required to use pg_ctl, and for the longest time, it was
pg_ctl that was considered to be broken (for various other reasons) and
avoided in packaged init scripts.
Arguably, if push came to shove, pg_upgrade wouldn't really need to use
pg_ctl either.