19.18. Short Options

For convenience there are also single letter command-line option switches available for some parameters. They are described in Table 19.2. Some of these options exist for historical reasons, and their presence as a single-letter option does not necessarily indicate an endorsement to use the option heavily.

Table 19.2. Short Option Key

Short OptionEquivalent
-B xshared_buffers = x
-d xlog_min_messages = DEBUGx
-edatestyle = euro
-fb, -fh, -fi, -fm, -fn, -fo, -fs, -ft enable_bitmapscan = off, enable_hashjoin = off, enable_indexscan = off, enable_mergejoin = off, enable_nestloop = off, enable_indexonlyscan = off, enable_seqscan = off, enable_tidscan = off
-Ffsync = off
-h xlisten_addresses = x
-ilisten_addresses = '*'
-k xunix_socket_directories = x
-lssl = on
-N xmax_connections = x
-Oallow_system_table_mods = on
-p xport = x
-Pignore_system_indexes = on
-slog_statement_stats = on
-S xwork_mem = x
-tpa, -tpl, -telog_parser_stats = on, log_planner_stats = on, log_executor_stats = on
-W xpost_auth_delay = x