Good report. Would you check to see if a sleep or loop checking if the
file is unused would help?
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> pg_ctl seems to be working for Windows now, except that there are occasional Windows file locking issues, especially
onrestart - see below.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
>
> C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql>bin\pg_ctl -D data -l logfile restart
> waiting for postmaster to shut down....done
> postmaster stopped
> postmaster starting
>
> C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql>
> C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql>
> C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql>
> C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql>
> C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql>bin\pg_ctl -D data -l logfile restart
> waiting for postmaster to shut down....done
> postmaster stopped
> The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
> Unable to run the postmaster binary
>
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