Commit Graph

4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
8f5500e6bd Make it reasonably safe to use pg_ctl to start the postmaster from a boot-time
script.

To do this, have pg_ctl pass down its parent shell's PID in an environment
variable PG_GRANDPARENT_PID, and teach CreateLockFile() to disregard that PID
as a false match if it finds it in postmaster.pid.  This allows us to cope
with one level of postgres-owned shell process even with pg_ctl in the way,
so it's just as safe as starting the postmaster directly.  You still have to
be careful about how you write the initscript though.

Adjust the comments in contrib/start-scripts/ to not deprecate use of
pg_ctl.  Also, fix the ROTATELOGS option in the OSX script, which was
indulging in exactly the sort of unsafe coding that renders this fix
pointless :-(.  A pipe inside the "sudo" will probably result in more
than one postgres-owned process hanging around.
2009-08-27 16:59:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
97e3a6e9c5 Remove inappropriate cd commands, per David Wheeler. Also make
the PATH responsive to the installation prefix, which was the apparent
intent of the previous edit, but not well executed.
2008-01-16 21:00:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
18e3992e56 Add standard error redirection for OS/X & darwin startup script.
Les Hill
2007-05-30 19:58:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87a9473276 Update /contrib OS/X startup files, and move to a separate OS/X
directory.

Mark Cotner and David Fetter
2007-05-30 18:10:38 +00:00