Re: Permanent settings - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Aidan Van Dyk
Subject Re: Permanent settings
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Msg-id 20080219161105.GM10774@yugib.highrise.ca
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In response to Re: Permanent settings  (Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>)
Responses Re: Permanent settings  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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* Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com> [080219 10:59]:
> > Are you suggesting we keep appending? So if I set the same parameter 100
> > times, it would show up on 100 rows?
> 
> What about not touching the config file at all, but write to a separate
> file which is completely under the control of postgres and include that
> at the end of the config file ? You just said includes are a new feature
> which could complicate things, so why not use it actually in your
> advantage ;-)
> 
> That way disabling the overrides would be as simple as commenting out
> the inclusion of the postgres controlled config file. And it would
> separate the user writable and machine writable configuration...
Yes, I think that would be necessary (like I said), because in most
installations, I don't even thing the postgres user even has write
access to the main config file.

a.

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