Re: [HACKERS] Fix PID file location? - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Fix PID file location?
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Msg-id 2031.208.54.95.151.1117233357.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Fix PID file location?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian said:
>
> I have generated the following patch that moves postmaster.pid into the
> configuration directory.  pg_ctl only knows about the configuration
> directory because it can't read postgresql.conf, so it seems that is
> the right place to move it.

this seems wrong ... wouldn't it be better to teach pg_ctl at least enough
about the config file to enable it to find the data dir?

cheers

andrew






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