Re: Parsing config files in a directory

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 13:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> writes:
> > ... One file per GUC is certainly never going to fly though, it's 
> > been hard enough getting people to accept going from one file to more than 
> > one.
> 
> One thing that concerns me a bit about the lack of consensus on that
> is what will happen if different config-adjustment tools adopt different
> philosophies.  If Dimitri writes a tool that drops settings into per-GUC
> files, and you write one that puts them all in persistent.conf, and
> somebody tries to use both those tools, no good will come of it.
> 
> If we forgot about the config-dir idea and just had one file that was
> meant to be hacked by automated tools, the problem would go away.
> However I suspect that that proposal won't fly, so we ought to think
> about providing some guidance to tools writers about what to do.
> Is there any consensus on how multiple config files actually get used
> over in the Apache/etc world?

Apache has an include functionality that supports wildcards etc... so I
can do:

include "conf/*.conf"

And it just parses them.

Joshua D. Drake


> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 


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