Re: Small doc patch about pg_service.conf

On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 03:03:45PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> 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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