Michael Renner wrote:
> Mentioning PGHOST in pg_ctl's
> manpage/documentation should make this entirely clear for people who
> aren't familiar with the extensive environment variables PostgreSQLs
> client library can use. [1]
Yeah, this has been complained about many, many times.
> If this is a viable option I can write a small patch against the
> documentation.
I think the patch we need here is something that creates a separate
manpage for the libpq environment variables, and some kind of note in
each and every libpq-using program referring the user to that page.
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