From aaa6e1def292cdacb6b27088898793b1b879fedf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:38:39 -0400
Subject: Add postmaster -C option to query configuration parameters, and have
 pg_ctl use that to query the data directory for config-only installs. This
 fixes awkward or impossible pg_ctl operation for config-only installs.

---
 doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/src')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml
index b16bbdfa4b3..3807f4090a8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml
@@ -140,6 +140,20 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
+     <varlistentry>
+      <term><option>-C <replaceable>name</replaceable></option></term>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        Returns the value of a named run-time parameter, and exits.
+        (See the <option>-c</> option above for details.)  This can
+        be used on a running server, and returns values from
+        <filename>postgresql.conf</>, modified by any parameters
+        supplied in this invocation.  It does not reflect parameters
+        supplied when the cluster was started.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
      <varlistentry>
       <term><option>-d <replaceable>debug-level</replaceable></option></term>
       <listitem>
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