Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > Config-only directories seem to be only adding confusion. All possible > solutions seem to be adding more code and user requirements, which the > creation of symlinks avoids.
> Is it time for me to ask on 'general' if removal of this feature is > warranted? Well, the way we could fix it is to invent the parse-the-config-files option that was alluded to recently. Then pg_ctl would continue to take the -D switch or PGDATA environment variable with the same meaning that the postmaster attaches to it, and would do something like postgres --print-config-value=data_directory -D $PGDATA to extract the actual location of the data directory. Whether this is worth the trouble is highly debatable IMO. One obvious risk factor for pg_ctl stop/restart is that the current contents of postgresql.conf might not match what they were when the postmaster was started. I was never exactly thrilled with the separate-config-directory design to start with, so I'm probably not the person to opine on whether we could get away with removing it. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers