Re: Why conf.d should be default, and auto.conf and recovery.conf should be in it

On 01/16/2014 02:53 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Hackers,
> 
> ALTER SYSTEM SET has been committed and recovery.conf GUCs are being
> reviewed.  I'm going to make a last case for conf.d in relation to these
> two patches before 9.4 goes out the door.

Personally, I'd find conf.d greatly more useful when enabled by default.
The need to hack postgresql.conf to use it eliminates half the point of
having it.

I haven't seen any compelling reason why conf.d should NOT be enabled by
default.

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