Re: location of the configuration files

I don't want to over-engineer this. Propogating -D into postmaster
makes sense, but grabbing PGDATA doesn't to me.

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Kevin Brown wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I see your point --- pg_ctl does a PGDATA trick when passed -D:
> >
> > -D)
> > shift
> > # pass environment into new postmaster
> > PGDATA="$1"
> > export PGDATA
> >
> > It should pass -D just like it was given.
>
> Yes, exactly.
>
> Now, the more interesting question in my mind is: if pg_ctl isn't
> passed -D but inherits PGDATA, should it nonetheless pass -D
> explicitly to the postmaster? We can make it do that, and it would
> have the benefit of making transparent what would otherwise be opaque.
>
> I'm inclined to answer "yes" to that question, but only because
> someone who *really* doesn't want the postmaster to show up with a -D
> argument in "ps" can start the postmaster directly without using
> pg_ctl at all. Tom made a good argument for sometimes wanting to keep
> the ps output clean, but it's not clear to me that it should
> necessarily apply to pg_ctl.
>
> But you guys might have a different perspective on that. :-)
>
>
>
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