Tom Lane wrote: > "David Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The best bet is to make sure that your postmaster start script > >> invokes the postmaster as > >> postmaster > >> no more. No path (set PATH beforehand instead). No > >> command-line switches (whatever you might want there can be > >> put into postgresql.conf instead). > > > OK, thanks. We're using pg_ctl to start it at the moment, but we can > > obviously change that. > > Hmm. Seems like it might be worthwhile to modify pg_ctl to use PATH > and PGDATA instead of making the command line longer. AFAIR it doesn't > insist on putting in any command-line switches except -D, and that's > easily replaced ...
People like the long postmaster line because it allows them to see the data path for multiple postmasters. I think we just have to access Solaris as partially broken, unless we want to do this only on Solaris. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
