On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 11:57:10AM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: > I propose my original v1 patch for correcting the --help output of > 'postgres' too. I agree with the above comments that corresponding > changes in v4 became somewhat unwieldy.
Thanks for compiling the rest.
- printf(_(" --NAME=VALUE set run-time parameter\n"));
+ printf(_(" --NAME=VALUE set run-time parameter, a shorter form of
-c\n"));
This part with cross-references in the output is still meh to me, for
same reason as for the doc changes I've argued to discard upthread.
write_stderr("%s does not know where to find the server configuration
file.\n"
- "You must specify the --config-file or -D invocation "
+ "You must specify the --config-file (or equivalent -c) or
-D invocation "
I can fall behind changing this one, still I'm not sure if this
proposal is the optimal choice. Adding this option to --help makes
sense when applied to this error message, but that's incomplete in
regard with the other GUCs where this concept applies. A different
approach would be to do nothing in --help and change the reference of
--config-file to -c config_name=VALUE, which would be in line with
--help.
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Michael
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