Re: [HACKERS] new Configuration patch, implements 'include'

2003-02-17 Thread mlw
Bruce Momjian wrote: mlw wrote: I don't like the idea of specifying a directory, per se' because if you have multiple database installations, how would you share the configuration without symlinks? Oh, for example, you would be sharing postgresql.conf, perhaps, but not pg_hba.conf.

Re: [HACKERS] new Configuration patch, implements 'include'

2003-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
mlw wrote: > I don't like the idea of specifying a directory, per se' because if you > have multiple database installations, how would you share the > configuration without symlinks? Oh, for example, you would be sharing postgresql.conf, perhaps, but not pg_hba.conf. -- Bruce Momjian

Re: [HACKERS] new Configuration patch, implements 'include'

2003-02-17 Thread mlw
Tom Lane wrote: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: If no hba_conf and/or ident_conf setting is specified, the default $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf and/or $PGDATA/pg_ident.conf will be used. Doesn't anybody see the (a) inconsistency and (b) uselessness of this? If you are trying to keep your config f

Re: [HACKERS] new Configuration patch, implements 'include'

2003-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If no hba_conf and/or ident_conf setting is specified, the default > > $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf and/or $PGDATA/pg_ident.conf will be used. > > Doesn't anybody see the (a) inconsistency and (b) uselessness of this? > If you are trying to keep your co

Re: [HACKERS] new Configuration patch, implements 'include'

2003-02-17 Thread Tom Lane
mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If no hba_conf and/or ident_conf setting is specified, the default > $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf and/or $PGDATA/pg_ident.conf will be used. Doesn't anybody see the (a) inconsistency and (b) uselessness of this? If you are trying to keep your config files out of the data d