Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 05/23/2015 08:06 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> I can't explain that claim, but for me, -c config_file=something >> seems to work as you'd expect, and a look at the server source >> code confirms that it should honor that (cf SelectConfigFiles()). >> I think the documentation Adrian pointed to is a bit out of date, >> or at least oversimplified. > So order on the the command line is not important, the start up code > sets its own precedence? Order on the command line would only matter if you wrote -c config_file twice. The point here is that an explicit setting for config_file on the command line overrides the default based on -D. Or at least it's supposed to. I'm not sure now what's going wrong for the OP. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
