Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
> Now that we support include-directories in postgresql.conf, you could put a
> "mylib.conf" file in the include directory that contains the above line, if
> you want to enable/disable a module just by moving things around in the
> filesystem (after configuring an include directory in postgresql.conf). But
> actually, you can't, because there's no way to append to a setting, you can
> only override. That's an obvious missing feature in the include mechanism.
> Even ignoring the plugins directory, it would be nice to be able to append
> libraries to shared_preload_libraries.
I think we need a += operator in the configuration file, complementing
the = we have now, and defined so that when the setting is not yet
defined it's a bare =.
And I think this plugins thing needs to be revisited, yes.
Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support
