On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I still think this is a matter for HEAD only. We haven't supported
> these cases in back branches and so there is little argument for
> back-patching.
According to Bruce's original post, there is at least one 9.1
regression here relative to 9.0:
>> What is even worse is that pre-9.1, pg_ctl start would read ports from
>> the pg_ctl -o command line, but in 9.1 we changed this to force reading
>> the postmaster.pid file to find the port number and socket directory
>> location --- meaning, new in PG 9.1, 'pg_ctl -w start' doesn't work for
>> config-only directories either.
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