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

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
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: 2013-08-20T15:33:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Stephen Frost escribió:
> * Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> > Stephen Frost escribió:

> > > 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..
> > 
> > The conf.d/ path would be relative to postgresql.conf, so there's no
> > need for Debian to patch anything.
> 
> Uhhh, I really don't see that working, at all...

I don't understand why not.  Care to explain?

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