Commit 06a70013 authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

Update postmaster manual page.

parent 5af43965
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.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/postmaster.1,v 1.8 1997/11/07 21:25:07 momjian Exp $
.TH POSTMASTER UNIX 11/05/95 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
.SH "NAME"
postmaster \(em run the Postgres postmaster
......@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ backend_pathname]
.BR "-d"
[debug_level]]
[\c
.BR "-i" \c
]
[\c
.BR "-n" \c
]
.br
......@@ -139,6 +142,11 @@ send their debugging output then this output will appear on the
controlling tty of their parent
.IR postmaster .
.TP
.BR "-i"
This enables TCP/IP or Internet domain socket communication.
Without this option, only local Unix domain socket communication is
possible.
.TP
.BR "-n" ", " "-s"
The
.IR "-s" " and " "-n"
......@@ -191,6 +199,8 @@ default port then all frontend application users must specify the same
port (using command-line options or
.SM PGPORT\c
) when starting any libpq application, including psql.
Local Unix domain sockets also use this port number as an identifier
to allow unix domain communication with multiple postmasters.
.SH "WARNINGS"
If at all possible,
.BR "do not"
......
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