Re: Parsing config files in a directory

Le dimanche 25 octobre 2009 10:08:33, Peter Eisentraut a écrit :
> On lör, 2009-10-24 at 13:32 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> > Regardless, the UI I was hoping for was to make the default
> > postgresql.conf file end with a line like this:
> >
> > directory 'conf'
>
> I think something like is this is definitely more understandable for
> users and less overkill in the implementation.
>
> As a file point, I would prefer something like
>
> include 'whatever/*.conf'
>
> that is, listing the files as a glob pattern instead of naming a
> directory. Because packaging tools, editors, etc. will leave backup and
> temporary files lying around that you don't want to include, and we
> don't want to get involved into knowing all the naming patterns that
> people might want to use for those.
>
> Actually,
>
> include 'postgresql.conf.d/*.conf'

+1

>
> sounds nice as a default.
>

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