Re: Parsing config files in a directory

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parsing config files in a directory
Date: 2009-11-10 15:11:49
Message-ID: 4AF92E55020000250002C4EB@gw.wicourts.gov
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> A more radical approach would be for the server to refuse to start
> if a setting is set in more than one file, and for the server to
> report both locations. That would reduce the guesswork about
> problems.

-1

I see that as a big step backward. As mentioned earlier in the
thread, we use an include at the end of postgresql.conf to point to a
file with any overrides from our standard configuration. Without the
ability to do that, managing 200 clusters would be harder.

I would not complain if the server logged duplicates. (That would
actually be a minor blessing, as the startup would log all our
deviations from standard -- at least if our standard had an explicit
entry.)

-Kevin

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