Re: [HACKERS] postgres init script things solved - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] postgres init script things solved
Date
Msg-id 199804271455.KAA05043@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] postgres init script things solved  ("Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>)
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>
> > > The postgresql-?.?.?/contrib/linux/postgres.init is meant to start your
> > > postmaster at boot time and stop it at halt/reboot. Excelent.
> > > But it is made for postgres account running tcsh. I know nothing about tchs
> > > and my postgres account defaults to bash. So (thanks to Steve "Stevers!"
> > > Coile) I changed it to bash:
>
> OK, but _I_ don't run bash. So someone else is now maintaining this
> file? Why didn't we keep both forms in the file, with one commented out?
> What are we trying to accomplish here??

bash/sh is the standard, expecially because the top of the file has
#!/bin/sh.


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