Josh Berkus escribió:
> (2) Enabling DBAAS services to give users limited control over settings.
> (5) Enabling new ways of writing Puppet/Chef/etc. scripts, which can
> check a setting before changing it.
Surely these two cases are better covered by conf.d. For (2), DBaaS
providers could offer pre-cooked snippets that are dropped in conf.d at
the click of a button. For (5) it should be obvious that conf.d is
better than ALTER SYSTEM.
Not clear on (4); I think conf.d would also solve that one.
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