From 2af8b963f1c54ce89e25564301e8583612252ed9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 09:25:38 +0000
Subject: Add runtime configuration option "silent_mode". This is equivalent to
 postmaster's -S option.

---
 doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc/src')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index b27b13294af..7b1fbd68a33 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.26 2000/09/30 16:58:20 petere Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.27 2000/10/08 09:25:35 ishii Exp $
 -->
 
 <Chapter Id="runtime">
@@ -962,6 +962,21 @@ env PGOPTIONS='--geqo=off' psql
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
+     <varlistentry>
+      <term>SILENT_MODE (<type>bool</type>)</term>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+	    Runs postmaster silently. If this option is set, postmaser
+        will automatically run in background and any controlling ttys
+        are disassociated, thus no message is put to stdout or
+        stderr(same effect as postmaster's -S option). Unless some
+        logging systems such as syslog is enabled, using this option
+        is discouraged since it makes difficult to find error
+        messages.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
      <varlistentry>
       <term>SORT_MEM (<type>integer</type>)</term>
       <listitem>
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