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

On 2014-01-16 11:35:00 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Andres Freund (andres@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> > So, if we want to support antything but a) relative to pgdata b)
> > relative to postgresql.conf it needs to be configurable at startup
> > time. Possibly with an added initdb switch to set the location.
> 
> How would an initdb switch be better than an option in postgresql.conf?
> That sounds very backwards to me.  If you meant a *postmaster*/pg_ctl
> option, that would make some sense to me, for folks who would like to
> avoid having a single postgresql.conf at all...  Don't know if that
> would work today or not tho.

Oh, I was thinking of initdb option being complementary to a
postgresql.conf option, just setting the path in the generated
postgresql.conf. That way distributions wouldn't have to muck around in
the generated config anymore.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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