Re: Re: COPY error: pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly

> Tod McQuillin <devin@spamcop.net> writes:
> > I was not aware the binary would behave differently depending on the name
> > it was invoked as.
>
> Right.  We used to have two separate binaries, and the postmaster would
> actually exec() the backend (postgres) binary for every session launch.
> About two years ago, Bruce made them into a single executable so that
> session launch only needs fork() and not exec().  But he kept the old
> switch-parsing mechanisms for backwards compatibiliy with existing
> startup scripts.  So our current switch syntax is a dreadfully ugly
> legacy thingy :-(
>
> Peter E. has done some good work towards providing a less ugly switch
> notation for 7.1.

Tom, can you be a little more specific on the changes?  I am unsure of
the details.

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