On 11/15/2012 03:41 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Is there a reason pg_ctl reload shouldn't honor -o ?
>> -o means "pass these switches on the postmaster's command line".
>> If you're not restarting the postmaster, you don't get to change
>> its command line.
> OK. You see pg_ctl as a wrapper around postmaster, while I was
> viewing it as a thing in itself.
You're possibly not aware of its history. Before 8.0 it was a shell
script and its use was seen as rather optional. IIRC there was even some
debate about whether or not we needed it at all for the original Windows
port (luckily Bruce and I thought we did, and made it happen.)
cheers
andrew