Re: -O switch

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 4:45 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > postgres --help:
> > -o OPTIONS pass "OPTIONS" to each server process (obsolete)
>
> > This was marked obsolete in 2006 (86c23a6eb28).
>
> I don't think it's really obsolete ... don't we use that to pass
> PGOPTIONS through from the client?

Then it probably shouldn't be labeled as obsolete :)

That said, I don't think we do, or I'm misunderstanding what you mean.
The startup packet which holds the client options is not read until
we're already in the child process, so there is no further exec to be
done?

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