Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> More people seem to have voted for the single file approach but I still
>> haven't understood why...
> Me neither. Having an include directory seems good, but I can't think
> why we'd want to clutter it up with a bajillion automatically
> generated files. One .auto file that gets overwritten at need seems
> way nicer.
IMO an include directory containing just one file is silly. If we're
going with the single-file approach, let's lose the directory altogether
and just store the file at $PGDATA/postgresql.conf.auto.
regards, tom lane