Re: confusing archive_command example

Greg Smith wrote:
> The third issue here, not mentioned yet, is that there's also an example
> of setting up archive_command in its GUC documentation:
>
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/runtime-config-wal.html
>
> This has drifted out of sync with the section being updated here this
> week--its archive_command example isn't even using "-i". I think the
> right thing to do here is to migrate the Windows example out of 18.5.3
> from 24.3.1, then replace the existing examples in 18.5.3 to instead
> suggest 24.3.1 has them. Given that all of this documentation giving
> examples for how to correctly configure that parameter, like this cp
> trivia, only appears in the PITR docs section, I don't see any reason to
> duplicate that in the GUC area. Having the second, minimally documented
> version of those in 18.5.3 just encourages people to use what we know is
> a bad practice by providing them as examples.

Agreed. The attached applied patch removes the example from the
configure section.

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