Re: Open 7.3 items

On Wednesday 31 July 2002 04:56 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
> > > I agree that if we could quickly come to a resolution about how this
> > > ought to work, there's plenty of time to go off and implement it.

> > afaict someone else volunteered to do the work. There is no lack of
> > consensus that this is a useful feature, at least among those who take
> > responsibility to package PostgreSQL for particular platforms. How about
> > letting them specify the requirements and if an acceptable solution
> > emerges soon, we'll have it for 7.3...

> Added to open items:

> allow specification of configuration files in a different directory

Thanks Bruce.

I am going to review the previous thread and attempt to distill what can be
done. I will then post a summary of what I found, with potential commentary.
If a consensus is reached, I'd like to see the feature in 7.3.

Peter had mentioned it as well; might want to see if he has done anything as
yet with it.

That being said, a patch exists for 7.2beta to effect a version of this
change. I will also review this patch as I can and see what will be required
to make this work in CURRENT.

IMO, the key is that if the switch is not specified the current behavior is
default. If specified, it will do its thing.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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