Re: Why conf.d should be default, and auto.conf and recovery.conf should be in it

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why conf.d should be default, and auto.conf and recovery.conf should be in it
Date: 2014-01-16 16:40:39
Message-ID: 20140116164039.GF21170@alap3.anarazel.de
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 2014-01-16 11:35:00 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Andres Freund (andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> > So, if we want to support antything but a) relative to pgdata b)
> > relative to postgresql.conf it needs to be configurable at startup
> > time. Possibly with an added initdb switch to set the location.
>
> How would an initdb switch be better than an option in postgresql.conf?
> That sounds very backwards to me. If you meant a *postmaster*/pg_ctl
> option, that would make some sense to me, for folks who would like to
> avoid having a single postgresql.conf at all... Don't know if that
> would work today or not tho.

Oh, I was thinking of initdb option being complementary to a
postgresql.conf option, just setting the path in the generated
postgresql.conf. That way distributions wouldn't have to muck around in
the generated config anymore.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

--
Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Stephen Frost 2014-01-16 16:42:19 Re: Why conf.d should be default, and auto.conf and recovery.conf should be in it
Previous Message Stephen Frost 2014-01-16 16:35:00 Re: Why conf.d should be default, and auto.conf and recovery.conf should be in it