On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 4:26 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > So this invents an initdb switch "-c NAME=VALUE" just like the > one that the server itself has long had.
HUGE +1 from me. This will, I think, be extremely convenient in many situations. > The specified settings > are applied on the command line of the initial probe calls > (which happen before we've made any config files), and then they > are added to postgresql.auto.conf, which causes them to take > effect for the bootstrap backend runs as well as subsequent > postmaster starts. I agree with others that it would seem more natural to edit them in postgresql.conf itself, but I also think it doesn't matter nearly as much as getting the feature in some form. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
