Re: Postgres and --config-file option

From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres and --config-file option
Date: 2024-05-16 08:57:10
Message-ID: CAJ7c6TNTXXWr3G5MYUkxJUdFbxizRp6dCFAqODoXhwwmbMgsqQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

> Agreed that mentioning the --name variant is useful. I'm not really
> on board with having one option refer to the other on the pages where
> both are described, like on --help or the doc page for "postgres".
>
> For now, I've applied a patch for the libpq.sgml and config.sgml bits
> which are improvements of their own.

Thanks, Michael.

I propose my original v1 patch for correcting the --help output of
'postgres' too. I agree with the above comments that corresponding
changes in v4 became somewhat unwieldy.

--
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

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