Re: Postgres and --config-file option

On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 2:23 PM David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 4:35 AM Aleksander Alekseev <
> aleksander@timescale.com> wrote:
>
>> PFA the patch. It's short but I think it mitigates the problem.
>>
>>
> I took a look at where these options are discussed in the documentation
> and now feel that we should make these options clear more broadly (config
> and libpq, plus pointing to --name from -c in a couple of places).  It
> doesn't add much verbosity and, frankly, if I was to pick one
> "--name=value" would win and so I'd rather document it, leaving -c alone
> for historical reasons.
>
> I've attached a replacement patch with the additional changes.
>
>
And I just saw one more apparently undocumented requirement (or a typo)

You must specify the --config-file

The actual parameter is "config_file", so apparently we are supposed to
either convert underscores to hyphens or we have a typo.

David J.