Re: DOCS - System Applications 'datadir' parameter - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andreas Karlsson
Subject Re: DOCS - System Applications 'datadir' parameter
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Msg-id 34c6b2cc-ff39-4fc3-8cb7-f0e746b3941d@proxel.se
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In response to DOCS - System Applications 'datadir' parameter  (Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: DOCS - System Applications 'datadir' parameter
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On 2/18/26 8:27 AM, Peter Smith wrote:
> In most places, each of the Server Application documentation pages [1]
> refers to the directory where the database cluster lives as 'datadir'.
> However, a few places called it 'directory' instead.
> 
> This patch changes the outliers also to 'datadir', making everything
> more consistent.

The change looks good!

But I wonder if there isn't an issue with our XML. If you look at 
initdb.sgml you will se that there is a space before datadir, but if you 
look at e.g. pg_checksums you will then notice a lack of space, both in 
the source and the generated HTML, so the space in initdb.sgml was 
clearly added for a reason. Do you understand our documentation pipeline 
good enough to know why that space seems to be necessary?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgchecksums.html

Andreas




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