Dmitry D. Khlebnikov wrote:
> The man page for postgres(1) has a wrong description of the '-S' option.
> Previously, the '-S' option means that postgres will start in the 'silent'
> mode, but in version 8.2 the '-S' option describes the amount of memory for
> sorts.
>
I think you change the order, in 8.1 -S option describes the amount of
memory but in 8.2 it describes the silent mode. This is because there
was some mismatch options in postgres and postmaster. See "Make
command-line options of postmaster and postgres identical (Peter)" in
release notes [1].
[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/release-8-2.html
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