Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Yea, but you aren't going to be needing to know the xlog directory that > > way, will you? > > Why not? Who are you to tell me how my scripts work, or how they get > their information? I have a script that runs to tell me how much disk > space each instance is using up, that parses the ps output for the -D > argument ... having -X there would allow me to parse for that as well and, > if it was in the ps output, add that appropriately into the calculations > ... > > My point is, the functionality is there, and should be documented properly > ... encourage ppl to use the GUC setting in postmaster.conf, but just > because you can't grasp that some of us *like* to use command line args, > don't remove such functionality ...
You ask for a vote and see if you can get votes to add -X. We had that vote once already. We do make decisions on what people should use. If not, we would be as hard to manage as Oracle. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
