Re: Call for objections: deprecate postmaster -o switch? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> And I started the postmaster using:
>     ./bin/postmaster -B 2000 -i $DEBUG --sort-mem=60

But

(a) did the sort_mem setting "take"?

(b) can you put more than one variable setting in there and have
them all take?

I tried
postmaster ... --enable_hashjoin=false --enable-mergejoin=false

and then verified

regression=# show enable_hashjoin;
NOTICE:  enable_hashjoin is off
SHOW VARIABLE
regression=# show enable_mergejoin;
NOTICE:  enable_mergejoin is off
SHOW VARIABLE

so it works okay on HPUX.
        regards, tom lane