Re: Permanent settings

Mark Woodward wrote:
>> Mark Woodward wrote:
>>
>>> I have been looking at this thread for a bit and want to interject an
>>> idea.
>>>
>>> A couple years ago, I offered a patch to the GUC system that added a
>>> number of abilities, two left out were:
>>>
>>> (1) Specify a configuration file on the command line.
>>> (2) Allow the inclusion of a configuration file from within the
>>> configuration file.
>>>
>>>
>> eh? We have both of these capabilities.
>>
>
> Really? Maybe I'm just missing it in the "--help" message and the web
> docs, (I didn't see it in the code either) how do you specify a config
> file on postmaster startup?
>
> Also I didn't see any way to include a file from within postgresql.conf.
>
>

See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/config-setting.html
and
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-file-locations.html

cheers

andrew