Re: Re: COPY error: pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly - Mailing list pgsql-general

Tod McQuillin <devin@spamcop.net> writes:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>> -S suppresses all log output, so first you need to get rid of that.

> The postgres.1 man page from postgresql-7.0.3/doc/man.tar.gz says:

>        -S SortSize

Postmaster and backend switches are two different animals.  To specify
a backend switch to the postmaster, you need -o.  Thus:

    postmaster -S -o "-S 1000"

selects silent postmaster mode and 1000K sortsize for the backend.

In short: postmaster.1 != postgres.1 ...

            regards, tom lane