That's it.
Found the switch in /etc/postgresql/postmaster.init.
Thank you very much,
Bill
>===== Original Message From Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> =====
>Bill Barnes <bbarnes@operamail.com> writes:
>> kgb10:/home/billb# /etc/init.d/postgreql start -i
>> Starting PostgreSQL postmaster
>> kgb10:/home/billb# ps ax | grep postmaster
>> 24746 pts/5 S 0:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster -b
>> /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres -B 128 -D
>> /var/lib/postgres/data -d 0
>
>> What could account for the missing -i switch in the running postmaster?
>
>Are you sure your /etc/init.d/postgreql is designed to pass its own
>commandline switches on to the invoked postmaster? Usually startup
>scripts don't do that, since they are not designed to be run by hand
>but from /etc/rc. My bet is that there is a config file somewhere that
>the init.d script is reading (which is where the other switches given
>to the postmaster are coming from). You need to put -i in that file.
>
> regards, tom lane