Re: pg_config, pg_service.conf, postgresql.conf ....

Mark Woodward wrote:
> The pg_config program needs to display more information, specifically
> where the location of pg_service.conf would reside.

pg_config --sysconfdir

> Also, I know I've been harping on this for years (literally), but
> since the PosgteSQL programs already have the notion that there is
> some static directory for which to locate files (pg_service.conf),
> couldn't we also use this directory to include pg_hba.conf,
> pg_ident.conf, and perhaps even postgresql.conf?

Considering that pg_service.conf is a client configuration file and the 
others are server configuration files, I don't think there is a causal 
relationship between putting them one place or another, independent of 
the individual merit of placing them in particular spot.  I'm not sure 
that sentence makes sense.

> Maybe we also add to pg_service.conf enough data to start a database
> so that a tool, perhaps pg_service, could read and extract the info
> for pg_ctl, so databases can be started by service names:
>
> pg_ctl -S service_name start

I don't mind a mechanism that pg_ctl can start more than one database 
cluster.  The Debian packages have started to develop such a system 
independently because of upgrading requirements, but putting it into 
the mainline would certainly be useful.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/