Re: Bogus path in postmaster.opts

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bogus path in postmaster.opts
Date: 2006-01-19 20:46:28
Message-ID: 8854.1137703588@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> There is another possible answer, and it's something I've been
>> meaning to bring up for awhile. Is there a good reason why
>> postmaster is a symlink to postgres, rather than a hard link?

> I don't know of one. Something I have thought of during the recent
> options reorganization is that we could do away with the
> postmaster/postgres dichotomy altogether. Just call the thing
> postmaster and give it a --single-user-mode option.

No strong objection here, though combining the two manpages is likely
to be a mess :-(

regards, tom lane

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