Re: Notes on config-file-locations patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Notes on config-file-locations patch
Date
Msg-id 200410100049.i9A0nrt12745@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Notes on config-file-locations patch  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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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 seem to recall that this was proposed all along (with the option named 
> -C), before it was torn apart and reassembled.  I'm happy with it.

Yes, I think -C is good.  Requiring the use of -c seems odd but I guess
the logic could be it is a config value that can't be set in the config
file.


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