Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah. I think the only sensible way to do this would be to provide an
>> operating mode for the postgres executable that would just parse the
>> config file and spit out requested values.
> That would certainly solve the problem, though it would have to be
> backpatched all the way back to 8.4, and it would require pg_upgrade
> users to be on newer minor versions of Postgres.
I would just say "no" to people who expect this to work against older
versions of Postgres. I think it's sufficient if we get this into HEAD
so that it will work in the future.
regards, tom lane
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