[Pkg-postgresql-private] Re: postgresql: sleep in startup script

[Martin Pitt]

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Hi!

I'm currently walking over postgresql's bug list to clean up a bit.
Does anybody object against closing this bug? If so, I will tag it as
wontfix (see Oliver's explanation below), since this is not going to
be changed.

Otherwise I would like to close this bug.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Martin (package comaintainer)

On 2001-07-12  8:31 +0200, mverdier@chez.com wrote:
> Package: postgresql
> Version: 6.5.3-26
> Severity: wishlist
>=20
> /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-startup is called from /etc/init.d/pos=
tgresql
> and has a "sleep 5" command at end. It slows boot process.
> Is this sleep really usefull ?

On 2001-07-12 11:18 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> mverdier@chez.com wrote:
>   >Package: postgresql
>   >Version: 6.5.3-26
>   >Severity: wishlist
>   >
>   >/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-startup is called from /etc/init.d/=
postgr
>       >esql
>   >and has a "sleep 5" command at end. It slows boot process.
>   >Is this sleep really usefull ?
> =20
> It is designed to ensure that the postmaster has had time to start up bef=
ore
> it is called on to service requests.  This is certainly necessary during
> the postinst and possibly at other times.  If you remove or shorten the s=
leep
> you should make sure that no process tries to access the postmaster until=
 it
> has finished initialising, which is some time after it has disconnected
> from the controlling terminal.
>=20
> --=20
> Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
> Isle of Wight                              http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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Martin Pitt                 Debian GNU/Linux Developer
martin@piware.de                      mpitt@debian.org
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