Re: postmaster, but not pg_ctl -i -i

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> I think the thing you were missing is that for pg_ctl, -o means "here
> are some switches to give to the postmaster", but for the postmaster
> -o means "here are some switches to give to postgres (ie, the backends
> the postmaster spawns)". So the switches following -o have different
> meanings.

[ tangentially related ... ]

Should we deprecate the switches to the postmaster that are just
alternate ways to specify GUC options (e.g. '-i', '-F', '-B', '-N')?
IMHO, splitting configuration between init scripts and postgresql.conf
only serves to make things more complicated...

Cheers,

Neil

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