Re: Parsing config files in a directory

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parsing config files in a directory
Date: 2009-10-24 17:01:56
Message-ID: 1256403716.8450.3412.camel@ebony
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On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 12:52 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> What bothers me some is that it sounds like a bit of a footgun. A
> postgres cluster is a shared resource, and we surely don't want
> applications meddling with the shared config. This seems quite different
> from, say, an application dropping a file in /etc/cron.d.
>
> I don't have strong feelings on it, but I do have some niggling worries.

Yes, that describes my mild unease about this a little better.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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