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Diffstat (limited to 'src/man')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/man/postgres.1 | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/man/postmaster.1 | 4 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/src/man/postgres.1 b/src/man/postgres.1 index 940e1822f9f..287e7347931 100644 --- a/src/man/postgres.1 +++ b/src/man/postgres.1 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" This is -*-nroff-*- .\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here.... -.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/postgres.1,v 1.5 1997/01/26 15:32:20 scrappy Exp $ +.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/postgres.1,v 1.6 1997/08/06 03:42:18 momjian Exp $ .TH POSTGRES95 UNIX 12/08/96 Postgres95 Postgres95 .SH NAME postgres \(em the Postgres backend server @@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ is the number of shared-memory buffers that the .IR "postmaster" has allocated for the backend server processes that it starts. If the backend is running standalone, this specifies the number of buffers to -allocate. This value defaults to 64. +allocate. This value defaults to 64, and each buffer is 8k bytes. +.TP +.BR "-E" +Echo all queries. .TP .BR "-F" Disable automatic fsync() call after each transaction. @@ -89,15 +92,17 @@ while a transaction is in progress will probably cause data loss. .BR "-P" " filedes" .IR "filedes" specifies the file descriptor that corresponds to the socket (port) on -which to communicate to the frontend process. This option is +which to communicate to the frontend process. This option is .BR not useful for interactive use. .TP .BR "-Q" Specifies \*(lqquiet\*(rq mode. .TP -.BR "-E" -Echo all queries. +.BR "-S" +Specifies the amount of memory to be used by internal sorts before using +disk files for sorting. This value is specified in 1k bytes, and +defaults to 512. .TP .BR "-e" The @@ -154,15 +159,6 @@ Turns off the locking system. .BR "-N" Disables use of newline as a query delimiter. .TP -.BR "-S" -Indicates that the transaction system can run with the assumption of -stable main memory, thereby avoiding the necessary flushing of data -and log pages to disk at the end of each transaction system. This is -only used for performance comparisons for stable vs. non-stable -storage. Do not use this in other cases, as recovery after a system -crash may be impossible when this option is specified in the absence -of stable main memory. -.TP .BR "-b" Enables generation of bushy query plan trees (as opposed to left-deep query plans trees). These query plans are not intended for actual diff --git a/src/man/postmaster.1 b/src/man/postmaster.1 index 5b01b727020..41e7b73bfd4 100644 --- a/src/man/postmaster.1 +++ b/src/man/postmaster.1 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" This is -*-nroff-*- .\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here.... -.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/postmaster.1,v 1.5 1997/02/19 01:31:30 momjian Exp $ +.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/postmaster.1,v 1.6 1997/08/06 03:42:21 momjian Exp $ .TH POSTMASTER UNIX 11/05/95 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL .SH "NAME" postmaster \(em run the Postgres postmaster @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ understands the following command-line options: is the number of shared-memory buffers for the .IR "postmaster" to allocate and manage for the backend server processes that it -starts. This value defaults to 64. +starts. This value defaults to 64, and each buffer is 8k bytes. .TP .BR "-D" " data_dir" Specifies the directory to use as the root of the tree of database |