> > It seems -S option for postmaster (detaching ttys) does not exist in
> > postgresql.conf. Is there any reason for this?
>
> It has been declared evil, because it loses the log output. Using shell
> redirection, or better yet pg_ctl is the way to go.
Really? I thought -S was evil because we had no working logging
facilities other than logging to stdout/stderr. Now we have the fixed
syslog functionarity, thus (at least part of ) the problem has gone.
Moreover if -S is still evil, why don't we completely remove -S? It
looks slightly inconsistent anyway.
IMHO we should make -S be configurable in postgresql.conf and let
users choose what they want.
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Tatsuo Ishii