On 24 Oct 2009, at 14:41, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Per discussion at the developer meeting back in Ottawa, attached is an
> initial patch that implements reading a directory of configuration
> files instead of just one. The idea being that something like a tuning
> tool, or pgadmin, for example can drop and modify files in this
> directory instead of modifying the main config file (which can be very
> hard to machine-parse). The idea is the same as other software like
> apache that parses multiple files.
>
> Files are parsed in alphabetical order so it's predictable, and you
> can make sure some files override others etc.
>
> Comments, before I go do the final polishing? :-)
I don't know what the discussion topics were, since I was not there.
But primary question is, cannot that be achieved with simple includes
in postgresql.conf ?