David Christensen wrote:
Enclosed is a patch to add a -C option to initdb to allow you to easily append 
configuration directives to the generated postgresql.conf file for use in 
programmatic generation.

We had a patch not quite make it for 9.0 that switched over the postgresql.conf file to make it easy to scan a whole directory looking for configuration files: http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/9837222c0910240641p7d75e2a4u2cfa6c1b5e603...@mail.gmail.com

The idea there was to eventually reduce the amount of postgresql.conf hacking that initdb and other tools have to do. Your patch would add more code into a path that I'd like to see reduced significantly.

That implementation would make something easy enough for your use case too (below untested but show the general idea):

$ for cluster in 1 2 3 4 5 6;
 do initdb -D data$cluster
 (
 cat <<EOF
port = 1234$cluster;
max_connections = 10;
shared_buffers=1M;
EOF
 ) > data$cluster/conf.d/99clustersetup
done

This would actually work just fine for what you're doing right now if you used ">> data$cluster/postgresql.conf" for that next to last line there. There would be duplicates, which I'm guessing is what you wanted to avoid with this patch, but the later values set for the parameters added to the end would win and be the active ones.

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