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Re: Postgres and --config-file option

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, 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: 2024-05-16T00:17:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 04:47:27PM +0200, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> 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

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.
--
Michael

Commits

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