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* 19.2. File Locations doesn't tell you the file locations!
@ 2017-10-06 10:06 redirect.null@gmail.com
2017-10-10 14:46 ` Re: 19.2. File Locations doesn't tell you the file locations! David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
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From: redirect.null@gmail.com @ 2017-10-06 10:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/runtime-config-file-locations.html
Description:
In the latest documentation "Section 19.2. File Locations" tells you how to
set the locations of the various config files, but it doesn't tell you how
to find out where they bloody well are in the first place! Which seems like
a ridiculous ommission.
If the section in the documentation titled 'File Locations' isn't the
appropriate place to document the locations of the config files, then I
don't know where the hell is.
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* Re: 19.2. File Locations doesn't tell you the file locations!
2017-10-06 10:06 19.2. File Locations doesn't tell you the file locations! redirect.null@gmail.com
@ 2017-10-10 14:46 ` David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
2017-10-12 00:32 ` Re: 19.2. File Locations doesn't tell you the file locations! Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>
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From: David G. Johnston @ 2017-10-10 14:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: redirect.null@gmail.com; +Cc: pgsql-docs
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 3:06 AM, <redirect.null@gmail.com> wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/runtime-config-
> file-locations.html
> Description:
>
> In the latest documentation "Section 19.2. File Locations" tells
> you how to
> set the locations of the various config files, but it doesn't tell you
> how
> to find out where they bloody well are in the first place! Which seems like
> a ridiculous ommission.
>
> If the section in the documentation titled 'File Locations'
> isn't the
> appropriate place to document the locations of the config files, then I
> don't know where the hell is.
>
The "installation instructions" covers where files are placed when
installing from source.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/install-procedure.html
If you are not installing from source them whomever compiled the package
you are installing will have specified where they are placing files and you
will need to inquire of them. The PostgreSQL docs don't cover file
locations in depth because each of the many platforms we support have their
own conventions.
David J.
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* Re: 19.2. File Locations doesn't tell you the file locations!
2017-10-06 10:06 19.2. File Locations doesn't tell you the file locations! redirect.null@gmail.com
2017-10-10 14:46 ` Re: 19.2. File Locations doesn't tell you the file locations! David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
@ 2017-10-12 00:32 ` Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>
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From: Ian Barwick @ 2017-10-12 00:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: redirect.null@gmail.com; +Cc: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>; pgsql-docs
On 10/10/2017 11:46 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 3:06 AM, <redirect.null@gmail.com <mailto:redirect.null@gmail.com>>wrote:
>
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/runtime-config-file-locations.html
> Description:
>
> In the latest documentation "Section 19.2. File Locations" tells you how to
> set the locations of the various config files, but it doesn't tell you how
> to find out where they bloody well are in the first place! Which seems like
> a ridiculous ommission.
>
> If the section in the documentation titled 'File Locations' isn't the
> appropriate place to document the locations of the config files, then I
> don't know where the hell is.
>
>
> The "installation instructions" covers where files are placed when installing from source.
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/install-procedure.html
>
> If you are not installing from source them whomever compiled the package you are
> installing will have specified where they are placing files and you will need to
> inquire of them.
>
> The PostgreSQL docs don't cover file locations in depth because each of the many
> platforms we support have their own conventions.
It is of course possible to obtain the current values contained by the settings
listed on that page with e.g.:
SHOW config_file
or
SELECT setting FROM pg_settings WHERE name = 'config_file'
Server has to be running, of course.
The various ways of getting current parameter values are documented on the previous
manual page here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/config-setting.html#config-setting-sql-command-interaction
Regards
Ian Barwick
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