Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> we do NOT use pg_ctl for [postmaster start], as it adds no value
>> and can cause the postmaster to misrecognize a stale lock file
> And? That statement was and remains perfectly correct.
Is this mentioned in the documentation somewhere that I've missed?
I'm curious what the issues are, and why we can solve it in a bash
script but not pg_ctl.
-Kevin
