From: | Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: No default for (user-specific) service file location on Windows? |
Date: | 2022-05-19 15:53:22 |
Message-ID: | 20220519155322.gd46iiporoqonhp3@jrouhaud |
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On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:11:06AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I do not like your proposed wording, as it seems way too dense.
> Can't we avoid the parenthetical remarks (plural) inside a sub-clause?
> You're asking the reader to keep track of about three levels of
> interrupt.
Yes, I was a bit unhappy with this wording.
> Maybe just put the Windows info in a separate sentence:
>
> ... located at ~/.pg_service.conf</filename>.
> On Microsoft Windows, it is located at
> %APPDATA%\postgresql\.pg_service.conf, where %APPDATA% means the
> Application Data subdirectory in the user's profile.
> In either case, the location can be overridden by setting ...
>
> ISTR there's precedent elsewhere for doing it about like that.
I'm fine with it. I still kept the default location full description in both
places as those end up in quite different part of the documentation, which
seems more helpful.
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