Re: Postgres and --config-file option

From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres and --config-file option
Date: 2024-05-15 14:47:27
Message-ID: CAGECzQTSOU9TNEZZ5S_78KAEbGCkWVndeNkyGX=DJeY2P7ru8w@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 11:49, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
> Yeah, some of this is becoming quite unwieldy, if we document and
> mention each spelling variant of each option everywhere.
>
> Maybe if the original problem is that the option --config-file is not
> explicitly in the --help output, let's add it to the --help output?

I definitely think it would be useful to list this --config variant in
more places, imho it's nicer than the -c variant. Especially in the
PGOPTIONS docs it would be useful. People are already using it in the
wild and I regressed on support for that in PgBouncer by accident:
https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/pull/1064

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