"David Parker" <dparker(at)tazznetworks(dot)com> writes:
>> The best bet is to make sure that your postmaster start script
>> invokes the postmaster as
>> postmaster
>> no more. No path (set PATH beforehand instead). No
>> command-line switches (whatever you might want there can be
>> put into postgresql.conf instead).
> OK, thanks. We're using pg_ctl to start it at the moment, but we can
> obviously change that.
Hmm. Seems like it might be worthwhile to modify pg_ctl to use PATH
and PGDATA instead of making the command line longer. AFAIR it doesn't
insist on putting in any command-line switches except -D, and that's
easily replaced ...
regards, tom lane