Re: unite recovery.conf and postgresql.conf

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Joshua Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>> Since we haven't yet come up with a reasonable way of machine-editing
>> postgresql.conf, this seems like a fairly serious objection to
>> getting
>> rid of recovery.conf.  I wonder if there's a way we can work around
>> that...
>
> Well, we *did* actually come up with a reasonable way, but it died under an avalanche of bikeshedding and
"we-must-do-everything-the-way-we-always-have-done". I refer, of course, to the "configuration directory" patch, which
wasa fine solution, and would indeed take care of the recovery.conf issues as well had we implemented it.  We can
*still*implement it, for 9.2. 

Well, I find that a fairly ugly solution to the problem, but I agree
that it is solvable, if we could get a critical mass on any some
particular solution.

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