Re: BUG #4894: [patch] documentation bug on 'include' directive

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Peter Schuller <peter(dot)schuller(at)infidyne(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #4894: [patch] documentation bug on 'include' directive
Date: 2009-07-02 04:08:57
Message-ID: 20090702040857.GA19477@alvh.no-ip.org
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Peter Schuller wrote:
> > >> What generic error?
> >
> > > Error: Invalid line 496 in /etc/postgresql/8.3/main/postgresql.conf: »include 'filename' « failed!
> >
> > > This is with a Debian PostgreSQL 8.3.
> >
> > There is no such error message in Postgres 8.3 (or any other version).
> > I speculate that you are dealing with some bit of Debian-provided script
> > that tries to parse the config file but doesn't know enough to do it
> > correctly.
>
> You are entirely correct, it was the Debian init scripts trying to
> parse the config file. My apologies for wasting your time. I should
> have confirmed where the error message came from.

Forwarded:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535428

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