Re: unite recovery.conf and postgresql.conf

On 09/20/2011 09:23 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs<simon@2ndQuadrant.com>  writes:
>> I sympathise with this view, to an extent.
>

>> If we do an automatic include of recovery.conf first, then follow by
>> reading postgresql,conf then we will preserve the old as well as
>> allowing the new.
>
> I don't buy this argument at all.  I don't believe that recovery.conf is
> part of anyone's automated processes at all, let alone to an extent that
> they won't be able to cope with a change to rationalize the file layout.
> And most especially I don't buy that someone who does want to keep using
> it couldn't cope with adding an "include" to postgresql.conf manually.

As Simon has already appropriately posted.... You would be incorrect.

Joshua D. Drake

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