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 908900d63f362105b177f30b6e8eb42d58150af7..906ea48acdf009a77c954f3b65f8786aecc28da1 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
@@ -624,6 +624,8 @@ read_post_opts(void)
                                        *arg1 = '\0';   /* terminate so we get only program name */
                                        post_opts = arg1 + 1; /* point past whitespace */
                                }
+                               else
+                                       post_opts = "";
                                if (postgres_path == NULL)
                                        postgres_path = optline;
                        }