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

* Andres Freund (andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> 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.

Oh, sure, I can see that being useful.

Thanks,

Stephen