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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: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-05-14T11:18:33Z
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David, Peter,

> > The actual parameter is "config_file", so apparently we are supposed to
> > either convert underscores to hyphens or we have a typo.
>
> We convert '-' to '_' when parsing long options (see ParseLongOption()
> in guc.c).  So writing the long options with hyphens should generally be
> preferred in documentation.

Thanks for all your great input. Here is the updated patch.


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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

Commits

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