Back on December 1st I wrote:
>
>
> I suspect this work is actually a bit premature, and would best be
> done after we have a working Win32 postmaster. After all, you can
> happily run postgres without ever calling pg_ctl - it's a convenience
> rather than an absolute necessity (unlike initdb). On Windows,
> production users probably wouldn't use it at all - they would use the
> service manager, I should think.
>
>
Are we now in a state where it would make sense to look at doing pg_ctl
in C?
(And has anyone looked at putting in service manager hooks?)
cheers
andrew
