Re: [DOCS] 19.2. File Locations doesn't tell you the file locations!

On 10/10/2017 11:46 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 3:06 AM, >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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