Tom Lane wrote:
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>Is there any reason to worry about an accidental environment conflict?
>If someone mistakenly did "export PG_RESTRICT_EXEC=1", it looks to me
>like this would cause the re-exec bit to be skipped, but I suppose the
>worst possible consequence is that the postmaster would refuse to start.
>Is there anything I don't see? (Of course, the magic argument method
>can be broken manually in just the same way...)
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Yes. The effect would be that we just do exactly what we do today
anyway. We could make the value some more obscure token, but I don't
see much point.
cheers
andrew