Re: [HACKERS] Clarifying "server starting" messaging in pg_ctl startwithout --wait - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 12/20/16 3:31 PM, Ryan Murphy wrote:
> I'm concerned some new users may not understand this behavior of pg_ctl,
> so I wanted to suggest that we add some additional messaging after
> "server starting" - something like:
> 
> $ pg_ctl -D datadir -l logfile start
> server starting
> (to wait for confirmation that server actually started, try pg_ctl again
> with --wait)

Maybe the fix is to make --wait the default?

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