Re: Why conf.d should be default, and auto.conf and recovery.conf should be in it

On 2014-01-16 08:34:23 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> * Peter Eisentraut (peter_e@gmx.net) wrote:
> > Then one might as well argue that the pg_db_role_setting table be
> > relocated to /etc.  It's the same facility, only on a slightly different
> > level.  The fact that postgresql.auto.conf looks the same as a
> > plain-text configuration file is an implementation detail.  We could
> > have chosen some binary format instead.
> 
> I argued quite a bit that we should be looking at moving more things
> into the catalog tables and pulling them out of postgresql.conf,
> reducing that down to just what's required to be there, rather than this
> nasty hack where SQL commands are modifying text config files.

Given that the majority didn't seem to be convinced by this and that the
feature was written differently this isn't a convincing argument for the
location of the file given the current feature, no?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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