the "SHOW data_directory" is an information that not exist in the guide today, but must to exist... is a suggestion to add information, a middle-expert or non-extert reader need it.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 4:59 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 11:41:36PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/functions-admin.html > Description: > > It is impossible to use pg_read_file(), etc. functions without > SHOW data_directory
What do you mean by that? I can call pg_read_file() before calling 'SHOW data_directory'. Are you saying that pg_read_file can only read in the data_directory? It is designed that way.