Re: [HACKERS] postmaster.pid

Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

> Another file "postmaster.opts" is also created under $PGDATA. It
> contains the path to postmaster and each option for postmaster per
> line. Example contents are shown below:
>
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster
> -p 5432
> -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> -B 64
> -b /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres
> -N 32
> -S
>
> Note that even options execpt -S is not explicitly supplied in the
> case above (postmaster -S), other opts are shown. This file is not
> only convenient to restart postmaster but also is usefull to determin
> with what defaults postmaster is running, IMHO.

It's not quite clear to me:  Do command line options override
postmaster.opts options? (I would expect them to.)

Cheers.
Ed