Hi, > It might be worthwhile to update the documentation if it would've helped > prevent confusion here.
> Its documentation also describes this method of specifying parameters in > the 'Examples' section. I believe the documentation for 'postgres' already does a decent job in describing what --NAME=VALUE means, and gives an example. IMO the actual problem is with --help message and the specific error message. > Please read the documentation for the complete list of run-time > configuration settings and how to set them on the command line or in > the configuration file Additionally --help message doesn't tell which part of the documentation should be read specifically. This being said, personally I don't think that providing specific URLs in the --help message would be a good idea. This would indicate that the --help message is just written poorly. > As for the help message, I’d minimally add: > > “You must specify the --config-file (or equivalent -c) or -D invocation …” Good idea. PFA the patch. It's short but I think it mitigates the problem. -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev
v1-0001-Clarify-error-message-about-specifying-config-fil.patch
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