> > Thinking about this a tiny bit more, it struck me that by > far the best > > way to do this is to stop using a magic argument and use the > > environment instead. Then we don't need to mangle the > command line at > > all. This actually results in less code, and should be more robust > > (mangling the command line in Windows is dangerous and > difficult because of quotes). > > This seems like a good idea. > > Is there any reason to worry about an accidental environment conflict? > If someone mistakenly did "export PG_RESTRICT_EXEC=1", it > looks to me like this would cause the re-exec bit to be > skipped, but I suppose the worst possible consequence is that > the postmaster would refuse to start. > Is there anything I don't see? (Of course, the magic > argument method can be broken manually in just the same way...)
This only affects initdb, not postmaster. I don't see the risk being bigger with environment than commandline at all. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
