Re: Configurable path to look up dynamic libraries

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On Wednesday 16 May 2001 13:15, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Lamar Owen writes:
> > It's not far from this to making pg_ctl have the ability to start all the
> > postmasters in a given config file with one command.

> I think there is merit in the idea to let pg_ctl start more than one
> postmaster.  But it probably ought to be in a separate config file, since
> pg_ctl is a separate program.

Isn't pg_ctl's separate config file in 7.0.x one of the reasons for GUC in 
the first place? :-) Although that particular example is a little 
contrived.....

>  Maybe simply have a file with one PGDATA
> value per line, and pg_ctl runs in a loop and starts a postmaster for each
> directory.  But what if you want to run several postmasters under several
> user names (probably a good idea, otherwise, why are you running separate
> postmasters)?  Needs more thought.

Then you can have separate files.  Flexibility!
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11
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