On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 20:40 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> If you require that a tool (or SET PERISTENT) parse through a file in
> order to change one setting, then you've just doubled or tripled the
> code size of the tool, as well as added a host of failure conditions
> which wouldn't have existed otherwise.
Hehe, this tool already exists. It's called postconf. And it actually
works. With PostgreSQL! Just rename your postgresql.conf to main.cf
for the time being. ;-)