By recent popular request in the ongoing discussion saga around merging
the recovery.conf, I've added an "includeifexists" directive to the
postgresql.conf in the attached patch. Demo:
$ tail -n 1 $PGDATA/postgresql.conf
include 'missing.conf'
$ pg_ctl start -l $PGLOG
server starting
$ tail -n 2 $PGLOG
LOG: could not open configuration file
"/home/gsmith/pgwork/data/include-exists/missing.conf": No such file or
directory
FATAL: configuration file
"/home/gsmith/pgwork/data/include-exists/postgresql.conf" contains errors
$ vi $PGDATA/postgresql.conf
$ tail -n 1 $PGDATA/postgresql.conf
includeifexists 'missing.conf'
$ pg_ctl start -l $PGLOG
server starting
$ tail -n 3 $PGLOG
LOG: database system was shut down at 2011-11-16 00:17:36 EST
LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
LOG: autovacuum launcher started
There might be a cleaner way to write this that eliminates some of the
cut and paste duplication between this and the regular include
directive. I'm short on clever but full of brute force tonight.
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Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US greg@2ndQuadrant.com Baltimore, MD
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