Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Joshua Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
>>> I am not arguing for this but if we went down that route it does buy us
>>> the ability to compartmentalize the entire conf.. so you have:
>>>
>>> memory_settings.conf
>>> logging.conf
>>> maintenance.conf
>> Would make it damn hard for pgAdmin to figure out how to edit the
>> config though. That's why we only support single-file configs atm.
>
> That's why we're working on adding a "sourcefile" attribute to GUC, so
> that it's trivial to know the path of the config file each settings
> comes from.
Still won't make life very easy for pgadmin, but it will make it
slightly less difficult.
That said, I think splitting the config out like that will mkae it even
more confusing for the newbie user, which is contrary to what we want here.
//Magnus
