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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])

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>
Cc: 'Boszormenyi Zoltan' <zb@cybertec.at>, 'Robert Haas' <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, 'PostgreSQL-development' <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-06-18T17:54:54Z
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Amit,

> I think, the decision of name, we can leave to committer with below
> possibilities, 
> as it is very difficult to build consensus on any particular name.
> 
> Auto.conf
> System.auto.conf
> Postgresql.auto.conf
> Persistent.auto.conf

Reasons for "auto.conf" as a choice above all of the previous:

1) short
2) significantly different from "postgresql.conf"
3) near the beginning of the alphabet, so it should sort near the top if
there are other files in conf/ directory

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Josh Berkus
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