Re: DBD::Pg is suddenly acting up!

BTW what is show below was done on
a different machine where postgres is
installed in a user directory..
Just to rule out confusion I had earlier
I deleted bin lib include in the user
home directory and reinstall it under
/usr/local/pgsql and the problem still
remains namely I have to supply extra -o
to make it work.


On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:43:46PM -0500, newsreader@mediaone.net wrote:
> Thank you.  Look what I get..
> ------------------
> $ pg_ctl start -o "-F -S 2048"
> postmaster successfully started up.
> $ usage: /home/newsreader/pgsql/bin/postmaster [options]
>     -B nbufs        set number of shared buffers
>     -D datadir      set data directory
>     -S              silent mode (disassociate from tty)
>     -a system       use this authentication system
>     -b backend      use a specific backend server executable
>     -d [1-5]        set debugging level
>     -i              listen on TCP/IP sockets as well as Unix domain socket
>     -N nprocs       set max number of backends (1..1024, default 32)
>     -n              don't reinitialize shared memory after abnormal exit
>     -o option       pass 'option' to each backend servers
>     -p port specify port for postmaster to listen on
>     -s              send SIGSTOP to all backend servers if one dies
> ---------------------
>
>
> I've found that
>     pg_ctl -o "-o -F -S 2048" start
> works as well as
>     pg_ctl start -o "-o -F -S 2048"
>
> ------
> If you read man page of pg_ctl you will see that
> it is telling you wrong
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:29:30PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > newsreader@mediaone.net writes:
> > > pg_ctl is completely not working for me. I do
> > >     $ pg_ctl -o "-F -S 2048" start
> > > and it keeps telling me I'm not doing it right.
> >
> > Indeed, you are not.  Try
> >     pg_ctl start -o "-F -S 2048"
> >
> >             regards, tom lane