Add option --config-file to pg_rewind

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Commit: 0d5c387573be5c40bf18b7b8983f406637dff42f
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2022-04-06T23:51:49Z
Releases: 15.0
Add option --config-file to pg_rewind

This option is useful to do a rewind with the server configuration file
(aka postgresql.conf) located outside the data directory, which is
something that some Linux distributions and some HA tools like to rely
on.  As a result, this can simplify the logic around a rewind by
avoiding the copy of such files before running pg_rewind.

This option affects pg_rewind when it internally starts the target
cluster with some "postgres" commands, adding -c config_file=FILE to the
command strings generated, when:
- retrieving a restore_command using a "postgres -C" command for
-c/--restore-target-wal.
- forcing crash recovery once to get the cluster into a clean shutdown
state.

Author: Gunnar "Nick" Bluth
Reviewed-by: Michael Banck, Alexander Kukushkin, Michael Paquier,
Alexander Alekseev
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7c59265d-ac50-b0aa-ca1e-65e8bd27642a@pro-open.de

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doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_rewind.sgml modified +15 −0
src/bin/pg_rewind/pg_rewind.c modified +22 −0
src/bin/pg_rewind/t/RewindTest.pm modified +10 −4

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