Re: Bad UI design: pg_ctl and data_directory

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bad UI design: pg_ctl and data_directory
Date: 2011-06-01 22:57:21
Message-ID: 1306968979-sup-8878@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié jun 01 18:22:56 -0400 2011:

> ISTM that it would be useful to run postgres in a mode where it
> doesn't actually try to start up the database, but parses
> postgresql.conf and then exits, perhaps printing out the value of a
> certain GUC as it does so. In this case, data_directory.

I had the same thought, and wondered if we could use the feature
elsewhere.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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