On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> Postmaster and backend switches are two different animals. To specify
> a backend switch to the postmaster, you need -o. Thus:
>
> postmaster -S -o "-S 1000"
>
> selects silent postmaster mode and 1000K sortsize for the backend.
>
> In short: postmaster.1 != postgres.1 ...
OOPS! My mistake. No wonder I was confused. I was basing my incorrect
assumptions on this:
devin@kanemochi /tools/pgsql/bin% ls -l post*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 devin wheel 1469829 Jan 4 03:21 postgres
lrwxrwxr-x 1 devin wheel 8 Jan 4 03:21 postmaster -> postgres
I was not aware the binary would behave differently depending on the name
it was invoked as.
Thanks for straightening me out.
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Tod McQuillin