Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 4:45 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> I don't think it's really obsolete ... don't we use that to pass >> PGOPTIONS through from the client?
> That said, I don't think we do, or I'm misunderstanding what you mean. > The startup packet which holds the client options is not read until > we're already in the child process, so there is no further exec to be > done? [ pokes around... ] Ah, you're right, that stuff goes through port->cmdline_options now. It looks like the mechanism for -o is the postmaster's ExtraOptions variable, which we could get rid of this way. Seems like a reasonable thing, especially since we unified all the other postmaster/postgres options already. regards, tom lane