Re: Configuration include directory

From: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Configuration include directory
Date: 2011-12-13 23:19:47
Message-ID: 4EE7DD93.2030100@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 12/13/2011 03:22 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Well, the existing include directive works relative to the directory the
> including file is in. If includedir works differently from that, that
> would be highly confusing.
>

Right, and that's gone now; latest update matches the regular include
behavior.

> I would actually just extend "include" to accept wildcards instead of
> inventing a slightly new and slightly different mechanism.
>

That's one of the ideas thrown out during the first round of discussion
around this patch. Tom's summary of why that wasn't worth doing hits
the highlights:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-10/msg01628.php

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