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17.16. Short Options

For convenience there are also single letter command-line option switches available for some parameters. They are described in Table 17-1.

Table 17-1. Short option key

Short optionEquivalent
-B xshared_buffers = x
-d xlog_min_messages = DEBUGx
-Ffsync = off
-h xlisten_addresses = x
-ilisten_addresses = '*'
-k xunix_socket_directory = x
-lssl = on
-N xmax_connections = x
-p xport = x
-fb, -fh, -fi, -fm, -fn, -fs, -ft[a] enable_bitmapscan = off, enable_hashjoin = off, enable_indexscan = off, enable_mergejoin = off, enable_nestloop = off, enable_seqscan = off, enable_tidscan = off
-s[a]log_statement_stats = on
-S x[a] work_mem = x
-tpa, -tpl, -te[a]log_parser_stats = on, log_planner_stats = on, log_executor_stats = on
Notes:
a. For historical reasons, these options must be passed to the individual server process via the -o postmaster option, for example,

$ postmaster -o '-S 1024 -s'

or via PGOPTIONS from the client side, as explained above.


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