I see the mention of -w in the main FAQ.
> Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > There's probably little reason to start a backend standalone. If you want
> > to do stock-of-the-trade debugging you simply start a postmaster, then
> > psql (or whatever floats your boat), and attach gd
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There's probably little reason to start a backend standalone. If you want
> to do stock-of-the-trade debugging you simply start a postmaster, then
> psql (or whatever floats your boat), and attach gdb to the resulting
> backend process.
Right, that'
I've just started fooling with some modifications to the backend.
I'm new at doing this in PG, so I'm blundering I'm sure.
In any event when I start the backend standalone (i.e. running
the 'postgres -D ' command, it seems I have to be the root
or postgres root user because of file permission
