Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > > Is reading postgresql.conf > > from pg_ctl without a parser really accurate? > > The brute-force solution is to duplicate guc-file.l. > > That seems pretty ugly but in the long run it might be the most > maintainable solution. We eventually gave up trying to have a > cut-rate SQL lexer in psql, and duplicated parser/scan.l. > Might be best to just go for that solution up front in this case.
Added to TODO: > * Allow pg_ctl to work properly with configuration files located outside > the PGDATA directory > > pg_ctl can not read the pid file because it isn't located in the > config directory but in the PGDATA directory. The solution is to > allow pg_ctl to read and understand postgresql.conf to find the > data_directory value. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
