Re: pg_upgrade - add config directory setting

On ons, 2011-09-28 at 11:53 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of mié sep 28 04:49:43 -0300 2011:
> > On tis, 2011-09-27 at 16:13 -0700, Steve Crawford wrote:
> > > It would perhaps be useful to add optional --old-confdir and
> > > --new-confdir parameters to pg_upgrade. If these parameters are absent
> > > then pg_upgrade would work as it does now and assume that the config
> > > files are in the datadir.
> >
> > It should work the same way the postmaster itself works: If the given
> > directory is not a data directory, look for the postgresql.conf file and
> > look there for the location of the data directory.
>
> So we need a postmaster switch:
>
> postmaster --parse-config-and-report=data_directory

Perhaps. That might have some use for pg_ctl as well.