Re: pg_ctl restart issue with relative paths - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 09:56:46AM -0700, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
>
> > I have noticed that, using pg_ctl, if you start Postgres using a
> > relative path, then attempt to restart it from anywhere else, it
> > fails.
>
> Yeah, I was complaining about the same problem here:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2011-10/msg00210.php
>
> and at least there's a doc note now warning against using relative
> paths, though it sure would be nice if we could fix this gripe.

FYI, the doc patch is mentioned here:

    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2012-08/msg00133.php

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