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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>1997-07-30 14:55:20 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>1997-07-30 14:55:20 +0000
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Remove restart instructions from INSTALL.
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 0800106aa78..6a362e24ea8 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -513,12 +513,6 @@ from 6.0 or 1.* release, do the following:
b) Back up your system. (You should probably keep the last few
backups on hand.) Ideally, no one else should be using the
system at the time.
- c) Stop and restart the postmaster. The software currently
- suffers from memory leaks. This means that as more commands
- are processed, the program will allocate, then forget about,
- more and more memory. Eventually your computer will run
- low on memory and start to swap excessively. This problem
- will probably be gone in the next release.
Ideally, the above tasks should be done by a shell script that is
run nightly or weekly by cron. Look at the man page for crontab