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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])

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, 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>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-08-20T15:24:32Z
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
>> 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...

Why not?  conf.d is for installable files, AIUI.  What we need to
be writable is auto.conf, but I thought we'd agreed that would live
inside $PGDATA.

			regards, tom lane