Re: [HACKERS] Notes on config-file-locations patch

2004-10-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > The main difference between this and the CVS-tip behavior is that > > if you want to specify the main config file directly, you write > > --config_file instead of -D. I think that's less confusing than > > overloading -D with multiple meanings. > > I

Re: [HACKERS] Notes on config-file-locations patch

2004-10-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: > The main difference between this and the CVS-tip behavior is that > if you want to specify the main config file directly, you write > --config_file instead of -D. I think that's less confusing than > overloading -D with multiple meanings. I seem to recall that this was proposed

[HACKERS] Notes on config-file-locations patch

2004-10-09 Thread Tom Lane
There are some loose ends and inconsistencies left in the config-file- locations feature, which I'm planning to clean up. One problem is that although the GUC variables allow you to find out the location of the secondary config files, you can't verify which main config file (postgresql.conf) the p