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Re: Postgres and --config-file option

Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>

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From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: 2024-05-15T14:47:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 11:49, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
> Yeah, some of this is becoming quite unwieldy, if we document and
> mention each spelling variant of each option everywhere.
>
> Maybe if the original problem is that the option --config-file is not
> explicitly in the --help output, let's add it to the --help output?

I definitely think it would be useful to list this --config variant in
more places, imho it's nicer than the -c variant. Especially in the
PGOPTIONS docs it would be useful. People are already using it in the
wild and I regressed on support for that in PgBouncer by accident:
https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/pull/1064

Commits

  1. doc: Mention more variant --name=value of -c name=value for postgres