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: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(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 18:02:12
Message-ID: 51FAA2A4.6070302@agliodbs.com
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On 08/01/2013 10:24 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> 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.

Some of the earlier emails sounded like that's exactly what was
proposed. Glad to clarify then.

*if* we do file-per-setting, what do you think of the directory name
system_set or system_conf then?

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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