Re: Parsing config files in a directory

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parsing config files in a directory
Date: 2009-10-26 14:45:33
Message-ID: 28713.1256568333@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane escribi:
>> Personally I think this is just a matter of usage. If you want to use
>> SET PERSISTENT, don't set values manually in postgresql.conf.

> I agree, except that some things are defined in postgresql.conf by
> initdb and you probably want to be able to change them by SET PERSISTENT
> anyway (e.g. lc_messages, listen_addresses, shared_buffers)

Well, initdb would also find it a lot easier to dump its settings into a
machine-generated file. I don't think we have to continue doing things
exactly the same way there.

regards, tom lane

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