On Thu, 19 September 2002, "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Robert Treat wrote: > > Well, as with most (all?) GUC variables, wouldn't you have the option of > > doing postmaster -o "pgxlog=/dev/null" and have the same functionality > > as -X ? > > True, but then that negates the whole argument about not having a command > line option, no? Which I believe was the whole argument on this ... no? >
Well, I think it negates the the whole reason to have a specifc command line option for this. Personally I'd like to see all (well, most) of the command line options to go away. We still get people emailing us because they cant get phpPgAdmin to work on a system because they forgot to start it with -i. I try to explain to them to edit the tcpip setting in the postgresql.conf, but many have never heard of that setting. > > Shouldn't this work the other way around? Use what's in the conf file > > unless I explicitly state otherwise? IIRC that's how it works with -i > > God, I wish I had thought to note it at the time ... one of the things I > did when I dove into this was to check how various Unix daemons were doing > it, now I can't recall which I was looking at that mentioned the config > file overriding the command line options, but you are correct, the command > line should override the conf file ... Robert Treat -- LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly