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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 1999-02-21 03:17:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 1999-02-21 03:17:31 +0000 |
| commit | 1efa3f42280fce080e47fc4491a809240cbe464a (patch) | |
| tree | 88579c29896cd4b9040f53125df4a11262393901 /src | |
| parent | 13abdde2b9399fe853296c368a4ff39f9a5d6fad (diff) | |
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Document postmaster's -N switch.
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/man/postmaster.1 | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/man/postmaster.1 b/src/man/postmaster.1 index 4eb623ea632..59ba1d5e03f 100644 --- a/src/man/postmaster.1 +++ b/src/man/postmaster.1 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ .\" This is -*-nroff-*- .\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here.... -.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/postmaster.1,v 1.13 1998/10/14 02:54:38 momjian Exp $ -.TH POSTMASTER UNIX 11/05/95 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL +.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/postmaster.1,v 1.14 1999/02/21 03:17:31 tgl Exp $ +.TH POSTMASTER UNIX 02/20/99 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL .SH "NAME" postmaster - run the Postgres postmaster .SH "SYNOPSIS" @@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ data_dir] [\c .BR "-a" system] +[\c +.BR "-N" +n_backends] .br .in +5n [\c @@ -105,6 +108,14 @@ connections, use .BR "-a nounauth . This option no longer has any effect. .TP +.BR "-N" " n_backends" +.IR "n_backends" +is the maximum number of backend server processes that this postmaster +is allowed to start. In the stock configuration, this value defaults +to 64, and can be set as high as 1024 if your system will support that +many processes. Both the default and upper limit values can be altered +when building Postgres. +.TP .BR "-b" " backend_pathname" .IR "backend_pathname" is the full pathname of the Postgres backend server executable file that |