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Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-08-20T15:11:16Z
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* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> Stephen Frost escribió:
> > With includedir and include directives, and postgresql.conf setting a
> > defined ordering, with last-wins, you could simply have the 'includedir'
> > for conf.d come before the 'include' for auto.conf.
> 
> Uh, I was thinking that conf.d would be read by the system
> automatically, not because of an includedir line in postgresql.conf.

I'd much rather have an includedir directive than some hard-coded or
command-line option to read the directory..  The directory should live
in /etc/postgresql/X.Y/cluster/ on at least Debian derivatives..

	Thanks,

		Stephen