Re: Parsing config files in a directory - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Parsing config files in a directory
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In response to Re: Parsing config files in a directory  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 12:52 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> What bothers me some is that it sounds like a bit of a footgun. A 
> postgres cluster is a shared resource, and we surely don't want 
> applications meddling with the shared config. This seems quite different 
> from, say, an application dropping a file in /etc/cron.d.
> 
> I don't have strong feelings on it, but I do have some niggling worries.

Yes, that describes my mild unease about this a little better.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com



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