David, Peter,
> > The actual parameter is "config_file", so apparently we are supposed to
> > either convert underscores to hyphens or we have a typo.
>
> We convert '-' to '_' when parsing long options (see ParseLongOption()
> in guc.c). So writing the long options with hyphens should generally be
> preferred in documentation.
Thanks for all your great input. Here is the updated patch.
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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev