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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:59:59 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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Subject: Re: please inform data_directory
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On Sun, Sep  9, 2018 at 11:41:36PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/functions-admin.html
> Description:
> 
> It is impossible to use pg_read_file(), etc. functions without 
> SHOW  data_directory

What do you mean by that?  I can call pg_read_file() before calling
'SHOW  data_directory'.  Are you saying that pg_read_file can only read
in the data_directory?  It is designed that way.

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