Re: Configurable path to look up dynamic libraries

Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes:

> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
> > teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=) writes:
> > > You could search in a path... first sysconfdir, then datadir.
> >
> > Surely the other way around.
>
> Which could work as well - or just a switch to postmaster to tell it
> which file to use.

Might as well use a symlink in this case.

I could go for a solution that processed both files in order (possibly
even ${sysconfdir}/postgresql.conf, $PGDATA/postgresql.conf,
${sysconfdir}/postgresql.conf.fixed in order, à la PINE). It could be as
easy as adding two or three lines in postmaster.c. However, I'm afraid
users will interpret a file in $sysconfdir as something clients should
process as well, which is not part of this deal.

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