Re: [HACKERS] postmaster.pid
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
To: Ed Loehr <ELOEHR@austin.rr.com>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-12-03T16:51:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Ed Loehr wrote: > Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > Another file "postmaster.opts" is also created under $PGDATA. It > > contains the path to postmaster and each option for postmaster per > > line. Example contents are shown below: [snip] > > Note that even options execpt -S is not explicitly supplied in the > > case above (postmaster -S), other opts are shown. This file is not > > only convenient to restart postmaster but also is usefull to determin > > with what defaults postmaster is running, IMHO. > It's not quite clear to me: Do command line options override > postmaster.opts options? (I would expect them to.) >From what I gather from Tatsuo's message, the 'postmaster.opts' file only shows the status of the currently running postmaster -- IOW, it's not a configuration file, but a status indicator. And I like the idea of this status information being available in this way. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11