Re: hba load error and silent mode

Tom Lane wrote:
> It might be that a reasonable solution on our end would be for
> pmdaemonize to point stdout/stderr someplace other than /dev/null,
> perhaps "$PGDATA/postmaster.log"?  Of course, it's not clear what
> we're supposed to do if that open() fails ...
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Well, yes, but that is at least a comparatively low risk, certainly much 
much lower than the risk having a faulty hba file, for example.

This sounds like a reasonable approach.

cheers

andrew