> Replacing the postgres binary with a shell script that executes the real
> postgres binary and then moves the gmon.out file out of the way.
>
> $ mv postgres postgres.bin
> $cat > postgres
> #!/bin/sh
> postgres.bin $*
> mv gmon.out gmon.$$
> ^D
> $ postmaster ...
> $ psql template1
>
Ah, I see. Re-enabling exec() is not a trivial job. Perhaps you can put a
system("mv ...") call in the postmaster backend cleanup code.
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