Re: Postmaster help output - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Postmaster help output
Date
Msg-id 25817.1032724475@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Postmaster help output  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@atentus.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@atentus.com> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut dijo: 
>> $ postmaster --help
>> ...
>> Report bugs to <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>.
>> DEBUG:  proc_exit(0)
>> DEBUG:  shmem_exit(0)
>> DEBUG:  exit(0)
>> $

Fixed: someone was sloppy about the initial value of server_min_messages.

> This is weird:

> $ postmaster -d1 --help
> FATAL:  --help requires argument
> $

This is because --help is special-cased and only works at the first
argument position.  As you have it, it's being taken as a GUC switch
name.
        regards, tom lane


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