Mark Woodward wrote: > The pg_config program needs to display more information, specifically > where the location of pg_service.conf would reside.
pg_config --sysconfdir > Also, I know I've been harping on this for years (literally), but > since the PosgteSQL programs already have the notion that there is > some static directory for which to locate files (pg_service.conf), > couldn't we also use this directory to include pg_hba.conf, > pg_ident.conf, and perhaps even postgresql.conf? Considering that pg_service.conf is a client configuration file and the others are server configuration files, I don't think there is a causal relationship between putting them one place or another, independent of the individual merit of placing them in particular spot. I'm not sure that sentence makes sense. > Maybe we also add to pg_service.conf enough data to start a database > so that a tool, perhaps pg_service, could read and extract the info > for pg_ctl, so databases can be started by service names: > > pg_ctl -S service_name start I don't mind a mechanism that pg_ctl can start more than one database cluster. The Debian packages have started to develop such a system independently because of upgrading requirements, but putting it into the mainline would certainly be useful. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org