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

On 1/15/14, 3:01 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Three issues:
> 
> a) if postgresql is still going to look for a recovery.conf file in the
> usual place, but we are changing the names and meaning of some of the
> parameters, then aren't we making the upgrade problem much worse?

That assumes that we are changing the names and meanings of some of the
parameters, which I don't see a reason for.

> b) what if the admin *does* want to disable reading recovery.conf in
> order to prevent old utilities from mistakenly including one?  How will
> they do that?

That assumes that there is a reason for doing that, which goes away if
point (a) is addressed.

> c) would this be in the configdir, datadir, or both?

That might depend on the parameter and what a tool wants to do with it.

There is also the consideration of whether some of those tools couldn't
be changed to use ALTER SYSTEM.

> I'd thought that part of the idea of the merger was to remove the
> "magic" status of recovery.conf.

Well, clearly, everyone has their own ideas about that.  I have several
non-overlapping ones of my own. ;-)  But my point is that we should look
what actually comes out of that discussion before we start designing
other facilities that interact with it.