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David Christensen wrote:
> Hackers,
>
> 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. In my case, I'd been creating multiple db
> clusters with a script and would have specific overrides that I needed to
> make. This patch fell out of the desire to make this a little cleaner.
> Please review and comment.
>
> From the commit message:
>
> This is a simple mechanism to allow you to provide explicit overrides
> to any GUC at initdb time. As a basic example, consider the case
> where you are programmatically generating multiple db clusters in
> order to test various configurations:
>
> $ for cluster in 1 2 3 4 5 6;
> > do initdb -D data$cluster -C "port = 1234$cluster" -C
> 'max_connections = 10' -C shared_buffers=1M;
> > done
>
> A possible future improvement would be to provide some basic
> formatting corrections to allow specificications such as -C 'port
> 1234', -C port=1234, and -C 'port = 1234' to all be ultimately output
> as 'port = 1234' in the final output. This would be consistent with
> postmaster's parsing.
>
> The -C flag was chosen to be a mnemonic for "config".
>
> Regards,
>
> David
> --
> David Christensen
> End Point Corporation
> da...@endpoint.com
>
>
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