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