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: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: 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>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
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 17:24:43
Message-ID: 20130801172443.GP19053@alap2.anarazel.de
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On 2013-08-01 10:16:59 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Dimitri,
>
> > We rehash because the situation did change *a lot*. We just decided that
> > the ALTER SYSTEM SET setup will live in PGDATA and will not have to be
> > edited by DBA nor sysadmin nor tools ever. We will have a separate
> > facility (conf.d) for that. As a result, I don't think there's any
> > issues left with one-setting-per-file now.
>
> Let's please NOT call it conf.d if it's living in PGDATA and is not
> meant to be edited by hand. conf.d is for a directory of config files
> created by users and external utilities, living in CONFIGDIR.

How nice that that's not what's being discussed here then. conf.d *IS*
the thing thats been proposed to be a separate feature from ALTER
SYSTEM. For the use case you describe.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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