[HACKERS] include_dir catch-22

2014-06-18 Thread Craig Ringer
There is, IMO, a significant oversight with the include_dir feature. If a distributor wants to enable it by default at initdb time, they can't just turn it on in postgresql.conf.sample, because initdb will die when the postgres backend refuses to start because the configdir is missing. Yet the

Re: [HACKERS] include_dir catch-22

2014-06-18 Thread Craig Ringer
On 06/18/2014 03:30 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: There is, IMO, a significant oversight with the include_dir feature. If a distributor wants to enable it by default at initdb time, they can't just turn it on in postgresql.conf.sample, because initdb will die when the postgres backend refuses to