If pg_ctl tries to start the postmaster, but the postmaster shuts down because it completed a point-in-time recovery, pg_ctl used to report a message that indicated a failure. It's not really a failure, so instead say "server shut down because of recovery target settings". Zhao Junwang, Crisp Lee, Laurenz Albe Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGHPtV7GttPZ-HvxZuYRy70jLGQMEm5=LQc4fKGa=J74m2VZbg@mail.gmail.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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