From 12ff9fa7715611d7df6a78447fce6cc5096cf335 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:01:56 -0400
Subject: Have pg_ctl return an exit status of 3 if the server is not running,
 to match the Linux Standard Base Core Specification 3.1.

Aaron W. Swenson
---
 doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc/src')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
index 07836e718f7..7dc170ee895 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
    <option>status</option> mode checks whether a server is running in
    the specified data directory. If it is, the <acronym>PID</acronym>
    and the command line options that were used to invoke it are
-   displayed.
+   displayed.  If the server is not running, the process returns an
+   exit status of 3.
   </para>
 
   <para>
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