On Friday, October 11, 2024, Seino Yuki <
seinoyu@oss.nttdata.com> wrote:
The current documentation explains the use of the postgres -C command,
but this method may be limited in DBaaS or managed service environments.
In particular, CloudNativePG does not allow the server to be stopped,
making the execution of $ postgres -C impossible.
If your environment doesn’t allow shutting down the Postgres service it seems highly unlikely you’d be able to perform the other low-level operating system actions required here as well.
I think the wording is fine as-is, though for consistency with an earlier mention on the page we could instead write:
This parameter can be viewed before starting the server with a postgres
command like:
David J.