From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:14:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Recent patches to pg_ctl broke "pg_ctl restart" for the case where no
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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.
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diff --git a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
index 34ae0f0642..f3f0e69fd0 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
@@ -546,8 +546,13 @@ 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;