Re: Parsing config files in a directory

2009/10/24 Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl>:
>
> On 24 Oct 2009, at 14:41, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>> Per discussion at the developer meeting back in Ottawa, attached is an
>> initial patch that implements reading a directory of configuration
>> files instead of just one. The idea being that something like a tuning
>> tool, or pgadmin, for example can drop and modify files in this
>> directory instead of modifying the main config file (which can be very
>> hard to machine-parse). The idea is the same as other software like
>> apache that parses multiple files.
>>
>> Files are parsed in alphabetical order so it's predictable, and you
>> can make sure some files override others etc.
>>
>> Comments, before I go do the final polishing? :-)
>
> I don't know what the discussion topics were, since I was not there. But primary question is, cannot that be achieved with simple includes in postgresql.conf ?

You could, but that would take away the main point - which is that the
utilities would once again have to edit and parse postgresql.conf,
which is *very* hard to do reliably given that it's a free-format
file.

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