Re: Postmaster help output

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postmaster help output
Date: 2002-09-22 19:54:35
Message-ID: 25817.1032724475@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut dijo:
>> $ postmaster --help
>> ...
>> Report bugs to <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>.
>> DEBUG: proc_exit(0)
>> DEBUG: shmem_exit(0)
>> DEBUG: exit(0)
>> $

Fixed: someone was sloppy about the initial value of server_min_messages.

> This is weird:

> $ postmaster -d1 --help
> FATAL: --help requires argument
> $

This is because --help is special-cased and only works at the first
argument position. As you have it, it's being taken as a GUC switch
name.

regards, tom lane

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