Re: No documentation on how pg_ctl is installed - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Daniel Gustafsson
Subject Re: No documentation on how pg_ctl is installed
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Msg-id 869261D5-D030-4123-888B-3BA4C6C7747C@yesql.se
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In response to No documentation on how pg_ctl is installed  (PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: No documentation on how pg_ctl is installed
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> On 23 Apr 2024, at 14:40, PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
>
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/app-pg-ctl.html
> Description:
>
> I have used postgresql@14 for several years and have always used pg_ctl to
> start the postgres server, check status etc.
>
> I tried upgrading to postgresql@15 with the command brew install
> postgresql@15 on a Mac from Terminal and pg_ctl is apparently not installed.
> The Documentation page for pg_ctl goes into all kinds of detail about the
> utility, the options to use, etc. but NOTHING about how it is installed,
> troubleshooting when it doesn't work or when it is not found. Google
> searches yield very little information also.
>
> Fairly new to postgres - apologies for the newbie comments but a little more
> documentation is needed here.

This sounds like a question for the Homebrew maintainers, the postgres project
is not packaging postgres for Homebrew and have no insight into how they do it.

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Daniel Gustafsson




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