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Re: Postgres and --config-file option

Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>

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From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: 2024-05-16T08:57:10Z
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Hi,

> Agreed that mentioning the --name variant is useful.  I'm not really
> on board with having one option refer to the other on the pages where
> both are described, like on --help or the doc page for "postgres".
>
> For now, I've applied a patch for the libpq.sgml and config.sgml bits
> which are improvements of their own.

Thanks, Michael.

I propose my original v1 patch for correcting the --help output of
'postgres' too. I agree with the above comments that corresponding
changes in v4 became somewhat unwieldy.

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

Commits

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