"Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu> writes:
> --- PG manual ---
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/storage.html
> postmaster.opts | A file recording the command-line options the postmaster
> was last started with
> So two inconsistences:
> (1) not necessarily postmaster;
> (2) if I starup postmaster by pg_ctl, then the information is not recorded
> here.
> Am I misunderstand something obviously?
Apparently, because your example fails to demonstrate either of the
claims you make. AFAICS pg_ctl started the postmaster with exactly
the argument that the file says.
regards, tom lane