On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 12:20:02PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Robert Haas writes:
>> I agree that it's not necessary or particularly useful for this hint
>> to be exhaustive. I could get behind your suggestion of
>> s/You must specify/Specify/, but I also think it's fine to do nothing.
Hi,
> Robert Haas writes:
> > If the reason that somebody is upset is because it's not technically
> > true to say that you *must* do one of those things, we could fix that
> > with "You must" -> "You can" or with "You must specify" -> "Specify".
> > The patch you propose is also not terrible or
Robert Haas writes:
> If the reason that somebody is upset is because it's not technically
> true to say that you *must* do one of those things, we could fix that
> with "You must" -> "You can" or with "You must specify" -> "Specify".
> The patch you propose is also not terrible or anything, but
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 4:57 AM Aleksander Alekseev
wrote:
> I propose my original v1 patch for correcting the --help output of
> 'postgres' too. I agree with the above comments that corresponding
> changes in v4 became somewhat unwieldy.
So, who is it exactly that will be confused by the status
On 2024-May-17, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 11:57:10AM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> > I propose my original v1 patch for correcting the --help output of
> > 'postgres' too. I agree with the above comments that corresponding
> > changes in v4 became somewhat unwieldy.
>
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 4:11 PM Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 11:57:10AM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> > I propose my original v1 patch for correcting the --help output of
> > 'postgres' too. I agree with the above comments that corresponding
> > changes in v4 became
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 11:57:10AM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> I propose my original v1 patch for correcting the --help output of
> 'postgres' too. I agree with the above comments that corresponding
> changes in v4 became somewhat unwieldy.
Thanks for compiling the rest.
-printf(_("
Hi,
> Agreed that mentioning the --name variant is useful. I'm not really
> on board with having one option refer to the other on the pages where
> both are described, like on --help or the doc page for "postgres".
>
> For now, I've applied a patch for the libpq.sgml and config.sgml bits
> which
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 04:47:27PM +0200, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> I definitely think it would be useful to list this --config variant in
> more places, imho it's nicer than the -c variant. Especially in the
> PGOPTIONS docs it would be useful. People are already using it in the
> wild and I
On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 11:49, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Yeah, some of this is becoming quite unwieldy, if we document and
> mention each spelling variant of each option everywhere.
>
> Maybe if the original problem is that the option --config-file is not
> explicitly in the --help output, let's
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 2:49 AM Peter Eisentraut
wrote:
> On 15.05.24 04:07, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > Not sure that these additions in --help or the docs are necessary.
> > The rest looks OK.
> >
> > -"You must specify the --config-file or -D invocation "
> > +"You must specify the
On 15.05.24 04:07, Michael Paquier wrote:
Not sure that these additions in --help or the docs are necessary.
The rest looks OK.
-"You must specify the --config-file or -D invocation "
+"You must specify the --config-file (or equivalent -c) or -D invocation "
How about "You must specify
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 03:03:58PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Here is the patch v4 with fixed typo ("geoq"). Per off-list feedback
> from Alvaro - thanks!
+ -c name=value command-line parameter, or its equivalent
+ --name=value variation. For example,
-postgres -c
Hi,
> Thanks for all your great input. Here is the updated patch.
Here is the patch v4 with fixed typo ("geoq"). Per off-list feedback
from Alvaro - thanks!
--
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev
v4-0001-Clarify-error-message-about-specifying-config-fil.patch
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David, Peter,
> > The actual parameter is "config_file", so apparently we are supposed to
> > either convert underscores to hyphens or we have a typo.
>
> We convert '-' to '_' when parsing long options (see ParseLongOption()
> in guc.c). So writing the long options with hyphens should generally
On 02.02.24 22:27, David G. Johnston wrote:
On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 2:23 PM David G. Johnston
mailto:david.g.johns...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 4:35 AM Aleksander Alekseev
mailto:aleksan...@timescale.com>> wrote:
PFA the patch. It's short but I think it
On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 2:23 PM David G. Johnston
wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 4:35 AM Aleksander Alekseev <
> aleksan...@timescale.com> wrote:
>
>> PFA the patch. It's short but I think it mitigates the problem.
>>
>>
> I took a look at where these options are discussed in the documentation
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 4:35 AM Aleksander Alekseev <
aleksan...@timescale.com> wrote:
> PFA the patch. It's short but I think it mitigates the problem.
>
>
I took a look at where these options are discussed in the documentation and
now feel that we should make these options clear more broadly
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
On Saturday, January 13, 2024, Nathan Bossart
wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 01:39:50PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
>
> > Should we remove --config-file from the error message to avoid any
> > confusion? Should we correct --help output? Should we update the
> > documentation?
>
> It
On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 01:39:50PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> OK, let's check section "20.1.4. Parameter Interaction via the Shell"
> [1] of the documentation. Currently it doesn't tell anything about the
> ability to specify GUCs --like-this, unless I missed something.
It appears to be
Hi,
A friend of mine complained about strange behavior of `postgres`. When
executed without any arguments the following error is shown:
```
$ postgres
postgres does not know where to find the server configuration file.
You must specify the --config-file or -D invocation option or set the
PGDATA
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