On 2013-08-01 10:16:59 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Dimitri, > > > We rehash because the situation did change *a lot*. We just decided that > > the ALTER SYSTEM SET setup will live in PGDATA and will not have to be > > edited by DBA nor sysadmin nor tools ever. We will have a separate > > facility (conf.d) for that. As a result, I don't think there's any > > issues left with one-setting-per-file now. > > Let's please NOT call it conf.d if it's living in PGDATA and is not > meant to be edited by hand. conf.d is for a directory of config files > created by users and external utilities, living in CONFIGDIR.
How nice that that's not what's being discussed here then. conf.d *IS* the thing thats been proposed to be a separate feature from ALTER SYSTEM. For the use case you describe. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers