Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> More people seem to have voted for the single file approach but I still >> haven't understood why... > > Me neither. Having an include directory seems good, but I can't think > why we'd want to clutter it up with a bajillion automatically > generated files. One .auto file that gets overwritten at need seems > way nicer.
The single-value per file approach punts the concurrency issues and ordering issues to the OS, which might significantly simplify the patch. I'm not sure that the niceness of the all-in-one-file approach justifies the extra code. If you ever want to view them all in one file as of some moment in time, there is always: cat * | less -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
