Enhance pg_ctl so that it prints error messages from postmaster

if it fails to start up it (this is only vaild if -w is given).

diff --git a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh
index 7cf1aa4702a1901ad4cef3b27f51e6815520f43e..ca9b0e6d95535818c7326cd41e4b582adecb220f 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh
+++ b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh
@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@
 #
 #
 # IDENTIFICATION
-#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/pg_ctl/Attic/pg_ctl.sh,v 1.10 2000/03/14 08:34:47 ishii Exp $
+#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/pg_ctl/Attic/pg_ctl.sh,v 1.11 2000/03/27 02:12:03 ishii Exp $
 #
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 CMDNAME=`basename $0`
+tmp=/tmp/tmp$$
+trap "rm -f $tmp; exit" 0 1 2 13 15
 
 # Check for echo -n vs echo \c
 
@@ -219,17 +221,17 @@ if [ $op = "start" -o $op = "restart" ];then
        if [ $op = "start" ];then
            # if we are in start mode, then look for postmaster.opts.default
            if [ -f $DEFPOSTOPTS ];then
-               eval "$po_path `cat $DEFPOSTOPTS`" &
+               eval "$po_path `cat $DEFPOSTOPTS`" >$tmp 2>&1&
            else
                $ECHO "$CMDNAME: Can't find $DEFPOSTOPTS"
                exit 1
            fi
        else
            # if we are in restart mode, then look postmaster.opts
-           eval `cat $POSTOPTSFILE` &
+           eval `cat $POSTOPTSFILE` >$tmp 2>&1 &
        fi
     else
-       eval "$po_path $POSTOPTS "&
+       eval "$po_path $POSTOPTS " >$tmp 2>&1&
     fi
 
     if [ -f $PIDFILE ];then
@@ -253,6 +255,11 @@ if [ $op = "start" -o $op = "restart" ];then
                cnt=`expr $cnt + 1`
                if [ $cnt -gt 60 ];then
                    $ECHO "$CMDNAME: postmaster does not start up"
+                   if [ -r $tmp ];then
+                       $ECHO "$CMDNAME: messages from postmaster:"
+                       $ECHO
+                       cat $tmp
+                   fi
                    exit 1
                fi
                sleep 1