Re: About the pid and opts files

I wrote:

> The main difference is that formerly you could assume that if port = 6543
> then the user necessarily gave the -p option (which isn't quite true if he
> used the environment variable, but anyway).

It occurred to me, we really do need to save the environment of the
postmaster. Consider such variables as LANG, LC_*, PATH (to find
executable), PGPORT, PGDATESTYLE, TZ. I think the safest thing is to just
save them all, unless you want to select the ones that matter.


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