Re: [Postgres-xc-developers] gtm output

[Koichi S. <koi...@gm...>]

Michael;

Thanks for a good comment.   I don't think discussing why is
productive.   Because gtm_ctl is expected to behave similarly to
pg_ctl, if pg_ctl -l works nicely to redirect stdout/stderr with -l
option, I think we should improve gtm_ctl as well.

Regards;
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Koichi Suzuki


2013/1/10 Michael Meskes <me...@po...>:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 05:40:35PM +0900, Koichi Suzuki wrote:
>> Yes, we have a similar problem using gtm_ctl with ssh.   And this
>> happens in pg_ctl as well.
>>
>> ssh hostxx pg_ctl start -Z coordinator -D somedirs
>>
>> won't return either.   As you suggested, we have to redirect
>> stdout/stderr explicitly.
>>
>> I think I can fix this problem for gtm_ctl by taking care of
>> stdout/stderr.   But I don't think I should do the same thing to
>> pg_ctl.
>
> I think this is a feature and not a bug. The bug just comes up when using the
> "-l" option to redirect output to a log file. Without this option you can argue
> the user wants stdout/stderr to remain open to see the messages coming from the
> backend. With a log file redirection stdout/stderr should be gone. This works
> nicely with pg_ctl as both, stdout and stderr, get redirected to the logfile.
> With gtm_ctl, however, only stderr gets redirected. Now the question is why...
>
> Michael
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