On 12/20/16 3:49 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Maybe the fix is to make --wait the default?
> I was wondering about that too ... does anyone remember the rationale
> for the current behavior?
Probably because that didn't work reliably before pg_ctl learned how to
get the right port number and PQping() and such things.
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