Re: Small doc patch about pg_service.conf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Small doc patch about pg_service.conf
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Msg-id 20150103195230.GD26414@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Small doc patch about pg_service.conf  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
Responses Re: Small doc patch about pg_service.conf
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 02:36:50PM -0500, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 01:22:02PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 3:24 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> > > There was a slash missing, which I've added.  Where is the default
> > > directory on Windows, or is there one?
> > 
> > Applied, thanks.
> 
> The old and the new documentation are both wrong.  The directory libpq
> consults is `pg_config --sysconfdir`, which is packager-selected but rarely
> matches /etc itself.  parseServiceInfo() has the code in question.

On my Fedora system, $(pg_config --sysconfdir) is /etc.  What should
we put in the documentation?

Cheers,
David.
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