On 11/02/2015 06:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: >> I don't know if this was discussed at the time ALTER SYSTEM was >> implemented, but I have just discovered that if postgresql.auto.conf is >> a symlink to a file elsewhere, ALTER SYSTEM will happily break that link >> and write its own local copy. That strikes me as rather unfriendly. Why >> not just truncate the file rather than unlink it as it's being >> rewritten? Even if we don't want to do that a warning in the docs might >> help users avoid the "mistake" I just made. > > Frankly, that behavior strikes me as a good idea. There is no situation, > IMV, where it's sane to try to put a symlink there.
So, just a doc patch then? Since we have both include files and config_dir, I really don't understand why anyone symlinks conf files anymore. Anyone care to enlighten me? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers