On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 03:03:45PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <[email protected]> writes:
> > On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 02:36:50PM -0500, Noah Misch wrote:
> >> The old and the new documentation are both wrong. The directory libpq
> >> consults is `pg_config --sysconfdir`, which is packager-selected but rarely
> >> matches /etc itself. parseServiceInfo() has the code in question.
>
> > On my Fedora system, $(pg_config --sysconfdir) is /etc. What should
> > we put in the documentation?
>
> On an install-from-source, it's $installroot/etc. So the new
> documentation is very definitely more wrong than the old, which
> at least was vague about which etc directory it meant.
>
> We could do worse than to say it's in the directory printed by
> "pg_config --sysconfdir".
Something like the attached?
Cheers,
David.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
index de272c5..36240f6 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
@@ -6951,7 +6951,7 @@ myEventProc(PGEventId evtId, void *evtInfo, void
*passThrough)
The connection service file can be a per-user service file
at <filename>~/.pg_service.conf</filename> or the location
specified by the environment variable <envar>PGSERVICEFILE</envar>,
- or it can be a system-wide file
+ or it can be a system-wide under the output of <command>pg_config
--sysconfig</command>, frequently
at <filename>/etc/pg_service.conf</filename> or in the directory
specified by the environment variable
<envar>PGSYSCONFDIR</envar>. If service definitions with the same
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