"Dick Wieland" <dwieland(at)bellatlantic(dot)net> writes:
> I'm wondering if this pg_options "option" works in 7.3.2? I dropped the
> following script
> verbose=2
> query=4
> hostlookup
> showportnumber
> as $PGDATA/pg_options and then rehupped with pg_ctl ...
There is not, and AFAIR never has been, any such facility as that.
Please point out the part of the documentation that confused you into
believing this would do something, so we can clarify it.
As Bruce noted, $PGDATA/postgresql.conf is the file to be hacking on.
regards, tom lane