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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2012-08-15 22:59:37 -0400
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2012-08-15 22:59:37 -0400
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Document that PGDATA has to point to the configuration files, rather
than the actual data storage directory. Per suggestion from Thom Brown
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@@ -179,8 +179,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
<term><option>-D <replaceable class="parameter">datadir</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Specifies the file system location of the data directory or
- configuration file(s). See
+ Specifies the file system location of the database
+ configuration files. See
<xref linkend="runtime-config-file-locations"> for details.
</para>
</listitem>