Re: A Sparc/Linux patch (for 7.1), and a Linux rc.d/init.d script....

> 	Just a few random bits and pieces that might be useful to someone
> else. They are:
> 
> 	postgres-7-sparc.patch -> This is the same one I posted earlier to
> hackers and ports, forgot to post it to patches. This fixes the resultmap
> for sparc-linux so that all regression tests pass.

Already applied.

> 
> 	postgresql -> This is a Linux distribution independent (or so I
> hope) init.d/rc.d script that makes use of pg_ctl. There is currently a
> few in ./contrib/linux of the pgsql source tree, but they are RedHat
> specific. This one is simple and self contained. Might be worth adding to
> the other scripts. 

Added to /contrib as init.d. 

> 
> 	pg_ctl.patch -> Minor patch required by postgresql script above.
> It basically just allows you to specify the -o option (postmaster options)
> more than once and all of them will be concatenated together. Makes it
> easier to do '-o -F -o -i', then to try and shell escape quotes in a shell
> script. Should be harmless, and might be handy. 

This doesn't seem like a good idea.  It makes -o handling different for
different utilities.

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