On 10/10/2017 11:46 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 3:06 AM, <redirect.n...@gmail.com
<mailto:redirect.n...@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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