Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Michael Renner wrote:
Mentioning PGHOST in pg_ctl's
manpage/documentation should make this entirely clear for people who
aren't familiar with the extensive environment variables PostgreSQLs
client library can use. [1]
Yeah, this has been complained about many, many times.
Usually an indicator that it need's fixing, eh? ;)
If this is a viable option I can write a small patch against the
documentation.
I think the patch we need here is something that creates a separate
manpage for the libpq environment variables, and some kind of note in
each and every libpq-using program referring the user to that page.
Looking through the available variables probably only PGHOST seems to be
of interest for pg_ctl's purposes; psql's manpage already refers to The
Documentation for further variables and information. What's needed in
pg_ctl's case is just a pointer for the uninformed, at least for me
that'd have sufficed.
best regards,
Michael
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