Oliver Elphick writes:
> 2. The following command line options to postgres don't have an equivalent in
> postgresql.conf. Is that intentional? (I suppose it is in several cases,
> and I have left out some where it is obviously intentional.) I can't see
> why these items can't be put in the configuration file:
> -C Noversion = true [not documented in postgres man page]
This option doesn't do anything.
> -D potential_Datadir = arg [set PGDATA]
This option can't be in the config file because it is used to *find* the
config file.
> -E EchoQuery = true [echo queries to log]
Hmm, there's debug_print_query. This will probably be consolidated in the
future.
> -e EuroDates = true [use European format for dates]
This should be a config file option, but Thomas Lockhart couldn't make up
his mind what to call it. ;-)
> -N UseNewLine = 0 [newline is not a query separator]
I don't think this is useful.
> -o [set stdout, stderr to file arg]
I think this is broken or not well maintained. Will be cleaned up in some
later release.
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