Recent patches to pg_ctl broke "pg_ctl restart" for the case where no

command-line options had been given to the postmaster; and just plain
broke it altogether in 8.1 and 8.0.  Per report from KaiGai Kohei.

diff --git a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
index 7844777362434d684c1d3f54d72478b0c64a43ad..4f8e834ceb41729be80d101d53795823ef5ae336 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
@@ -548,8 +548,13 @@ do_start(void)
                                        *arg1 = '\0';   /* terminate so we get only program name */
                                        post_opts = arg1 + 1; /* point past whitespace */
                                }
+                               else
+                                       post_opts = "";
+#ifdef NOT_USED
+                               /* this never actually worked pre-8.2 */
                                if (postgres_path == NULL)
                                        postgres_path = optline;
+#endif
                        }
                        else
                                post_opts = optline;