On 11/2/23 12:42, Tom Lane wrote:
"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
Alas, those config values are remembered in postmaster.opts. But I don't
want that.
I don’t know where this file is even documented ATM but my understanding is
it just shows you the values used during the last startup.
It does more, per the pg_ctl man page:
postmaster.opts
If this file exists in the data directory, pg_ctl (in restart mode) will pass the contents of the file as options to postgres, unless overridden by the -o option. The contents of this file are also displayed in status mode.
It seems totally reasonable for "pg_ctl restart" to re-apply those
switches. If you don't want that, don't use "restart", but stop
and start.
Thanks.
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