Re: Parsing config files in a directory

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 18:34:04
Message-ID: 407d949e0910261134n681ec167rfe5ebfa841a7f96b@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Maybe SET PERSISTENT needs to go back to postgresql.conf, add an
> automatic comment "# overridden in persistent.conf" and put a comment
> marker in front of the original line.  That way the user is led to the
> actual authoritative source.

We cannot have automatic processes editing user configuration files.
What we could do is give a warning if you do set persistent and the
source of the current value is a postgresql.conf.

--
greg

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