Re: Parsing config files in a directory

Robert Haas escribió:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:

> > It actually makes it completely trivial to implement.  SET PERSISTENT can
> > now write all the changes out to a new file in the include directory. Just
> > ship the database with a persistent.conf in there that looks like this:
>
> This only sorta works. If the changes are written out to a file that
> is processed after postgresql.conf (or some other file that contains
> values for those variables), then someone who edits postgresql.conf
> (or some other file) by hand will think they have changed a setting
> when they really haven't.

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.

> On the flip side, there could also be still
> other files that are processed afterwards, in which case SET
> PERSISTENT would appear to work but not actually do anything.

Fortunately we now have an easy way to find out which file is each
setting's value coming from.

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