Re: location of the configuration files

I have a new idea.  You know how we have search_path where you can
specify multiple schema names.  What if we allow the config_dirs/-C to
specify multiple directories to search for config files.  That way, we
can use only one variable, and we can allow people to place different
config files in different directories.

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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:16:44AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Nor will I buy an argument that only a few developers have need for test
> > installations.  Ordinary users will want to do that anytime they are
> > doing preliminary tests on a new PG version before migrating their
> > production database to it.  To the extent that you make manual selection
> > of a nonstandard data_dir location more difficult and error-prone, you
> > are hurting them too.
> 
> Not only that.  For safety's sake, you may need to run multiple
> postmasters on one machine (so that database user X can't DoS
> database user Y, for instance).  And making that sort of
> production-grade work more difficult and error-prone would also be
> bad.
> 
> A
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