Re: Question on postgresql.conf

> On Jul 31, 2018, at 10:59 AM, Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk(at)bmrb(dot)wisc(dot)edu> wrote:
>
> On 07/31/2018 12:33 PM, George Neuner wrote:
>
>> Is there some reason that postgresql.conf cannot be a link to your
>> file?
>
> It's six of one, half a dozen of the other. The big problem is when the
> network share is unavailable at host boot and all of your databases are
> belong to bitbucket. If you want to do it right, you need chef/puppet as
> already suggested.
>
> One useful thing linux (at least) has now is conf.d directories whose
> contents are auto-included after the main config: this way you can keep
> the vendor-provided /etc/blah.conf and have all your host-specific
> settings in /etc/blah.d/myhost.conf, all living together happily ever
> after. You still want the latter to be a local file that's guaranteed
> available when blah service starts up. (Postgres devs: hint! hint!)

You'd do that with "include_dir 'conf.d'" or similar, I think, which PostgreSQL
has in all current versions.

Cheers,
Steve