From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 23:50:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1240106564A; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:50:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbruni@me.com) Received: from asmtpout024.mac.com (asmtpout024.mac.com [17.148.16.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3908FC16; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:50:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbruni@me.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Received: from [67.42.40.132] by asmtp024.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KEZ002BM8VVE690@asmtp024.mac.com>; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:50:21 -0800 (PST) Message-id: <39D997E7-2708-4924-AAD2-EFA38D3767C7@me.com> From: Joseph Oreste Bruni To: girgen@FreeBSD.org Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-2-624865516; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:50:19 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD Port: postgresql-server-8.3.6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:50:21 -0000 --Apple-Mail-2-624865516 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Please disregard my previous email. I just realized that these switches are being passed to "pg_ctl" not to "postgres" directly. Cheers, Joe > Hello, > > I'm looking through the RC script used to manage PostgreSQL 8.3 and > I'm curious about the defaults used for the postgresql_flags > variable. The script sets the default value to "-w -s -m fast". What > were these supposed to do? > > Both -w and -m appear to be invalid flags for postgresql 8.3. The -s > option is documented as "show statistics after each query". > > The text of the script is as follows: > > postgresql_flags=${postgresql_flags:-"-w -s -m fast"} > > -Joe > --Apple-Mail-2-624865516--