Re: Improve documentation about include_dir parameter.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 01:40:25PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:23:37AM -0300, Emanuel Araújo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > when I choose conf files instead of postgresql.conf I needed uncomment
> > "include_dir" parameter in postgresql.conf to work fine.  It is a exception
> > over defaults parameters in postgresql.conf.
> >
> > Documentation don't explain that.
> >
> > How can submit improve patch in documentation about that.
>
> I see your point. In every other case, when you see a setting and value
> in postgresql.conf, the value is the _default_. However in this case:
>
> #include_dir = 'conf.d'
>
> 'conf.d' is not the default, and you have to remove the comment to use
> 'conf.d' as a configuration directory.
>
> This is not mentioned in the docs. However, I think the problem is not
> the docs, but rather postgresql.conf.sample. The attached patch fixes
> this, and I assume it should be backpatched, based on previous
> discussions of backpatching this file.

Patch applied back through 9.4. Thanks for the report.

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