Re: Bug with pg_ctl -w/wait and config-only directories

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Robert Haas wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > > > OK, here is a patch that adds a -C option to the postmaster so any
> > > > config variable can be dumped, even while the server is running (there
> > > > is no security check because we don't have a user name at this point),
>
> OK, here is an updated patch, with documentation, that I consider ready
> for commit to git head.

And with a --help documentation patch.

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  + It's impossible for everything to be true. +
commit c599ef7e91d4a28fe59b7ab4d84666bb01376570
Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date:   Wed Oct 5 11:18:26 2011 -0400

    Add --help output.

diff --git a/src/backend/main/main.c b/src/backend/main/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 8d9cb94..b14c731
*** a/src/backend/main/main.c
--- b/src/backend/main/main.c
*************** help(const char *progname)
*** 283,288 ****
--- 283,289 ----
  #endif
      printf(_("  -B NBUFFERS     number of shared buffers\n"));
      printf(_("  -c NAME=VALUE   set run-time parameter\n"));
+     printf(_("  -C NAME         return run-time parameter\n"));
      printf(_("  -d 1-5          debugging level\n"));
      printf(_("  -D DATADIR      database directory\n"));
      printf(_("  -e              use European date input format (DMY)\n"));