On 03/10/2013 11:12 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
>
> 5) An error message appears every time you reload configuration, if
> some part of the SET PERSISTENT mechanism isn't functional. This is
> going to be too much for some people. And it's confusing when it
> happens as part an interactive psql session. I have an example way
> down at the very end of this message.
An error when `SET PERSISTENT` is actually run seems sufficient to me if
the `config` dir is absent.
If the config dir or auto config file exist but are not included, that
probably deserves a warning during startup.
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