Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié jun 01 18:22:56 -0400 2011:
> ISTM that it would be useful to run postgres in a mode where it
> doesn't actually try to start up the database, but parses
> postgresql.conf and then exits, perhaps printing out the value of a
> certain GUC as it does so. In this case, data_directory.
I had the same thought, and wondered if we could use the feature
elsewhere.
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