| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Michael Renner <michael(dot)renner(at)amd(dot)co(dot)at> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #5103: "pg_ctl -w (re)start" fails with custom unix_socket_directory |
| Date: | 2009-10-08 19:36:37 |
| Message-ID: | 20091008193637.GF5510@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Michael Renner wrote:
> Mentioning PGHOST in pg_ctl's
> manpage/documentation should make this entirely clear for people who
> aren't familiar with the extensive environment variables PostgreSQLs
> client library can use. [1]
Yeah, this has been complained about many, many times.
> If this is a viable option I can write a small patch against the
> documentation.
I think the patch we need here is something that creates a separate
manpage for the libpq environment variables, and some kind of note in
each and every libpq-using program referring the user to that page.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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