- patch to create databases in alternative locations (not enabled by default)

[packages/postgresql.git] / postgresql-pg_ctl-nopsql.patch

--- src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh 	Sat Sep 29 05:09:32 2001
+++ src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh.mis	Mon Mar 24 23:16:48 2002
@@ -96,12 +96,12 @@
 fi
 
 # Check if needed programs actually exist in path
-if [ -x "$self_path/postmaster" ] && [ -x "$self_path/psql" ]; then
+if [ -x "$self_path/postmaster" ]; then
     PGPATH="$self_path"
-elif [ -x "$bindir/postmaster" ] && [ -x "$bindir/psql" ]; then
+elif [ -x "$bindir/postmaster" ]; then
     PGPATH="$bindir"
 else
-    echo "The programs 'postmaster' and 'psql' are needed by $CMDNAME but" 1>&2
+    echo "The program 'postmaster' is needed by $CMDNAME but" 1>&2
     echo "were not found in the directory '$bindir'." 1>&2
     echo "Check your installation." 1>&2
     exit 1
@@ -370,8 +370,10 @@
 # 6) If the dynamic loader is not set up correctly (for this user/at
 #    this time), psql will fail (to find libpq).
 # 7) If psql is misconfigured, this may fail.
-	    if "$PGPATH/psql" -l >/dev/null 2>&1
-	    then
+
+# YES, this is horribly misconceived.
+
+	    if ps -C postmaster >/dev/null 2>&1; then
 		break;
 	    else
 		$silence_echo $ECHO_N "."$ECHO_C