Re: [HACKERS] postmaster.pid

Ed Loehr wrote:
> Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > Another file "postmaster.opts" is also created under $PGDATA. It
> > contains the path to postmaster and each option for postmaster per
> > line. Example contents are shown below:
[snip]
> > Note that even options execpt -S is not explicitly supplied in the
> > case above (postmaster -S), other opts are shown. This file is not
> > only convenient to restart postmaster but also is usefull to determin
> > with what defaults postmaster is running, IMHO.

> It's not quite clear to me: Do command line options override
> postmaster.opts options? (I would expect them to.)

>From what I gather from Tatsuo's message, the 'postmaster.opts' file
only shows the status of the currently running postmaster -- IOW, it's
not a configuration file, but a status indicator.

And I like the idea of this status information being available in this
way.

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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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