Re: Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, David Johnston <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])
Date: 2013-08-01 18:37:45
Message-ID: 20130801183745.GQ2706@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> Andres Freund wrote:
>
> > Postgresql.auto.conf.d is what I'd propose, but the decision about
> > that seems to be one of the smaller problems around this feature...
> > That naming seems to make it sensible to extend other files (hba,
> > ident) similarly at a later point.
>
> I don't like this particular naming proposal, but I'm glad this patch
> finally seems to be getting somewhere.

Yeah, also not a fan. We don't have any 'conf.d' directories in PGDATA
and I don't think we should start now. I liked Josh's suggestions of
something like "system_conf". For multiple independent config files, we
could use directories under that (eg: 'pgconf', 'pghba', 'pgident'..).

Thanks,

Stephen

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