On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:38:52AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: >> > * Amit Kapila (amit.kapil...@gmail.com) wrote: >> >> If both are okay, then I would like to go with second option (include >> >> file mechanism). >> >> I think by default, we should allow auto file to be included and if >> >> user faces any problem or otherwise, >> >> then he can decide to disable it. >> > >> > If it's enabled by default, then we need to ship an 'auto' file which is >> > empty by default... >> >> initdb will create the empty auto file. If we don't enable by default, >> then if user uses >> ALTER SYSTEM and do sighup/restart, changed config parameter values >> will not come into affect >> until he manually enables it by removing '#' from '#include'. > > Just a heads-up, but a lot of C language folks are going to look at: > > #include abc > > and think that is enabled.
True, but generally for conf and script file, symbol '#' is treated as commented portion of content. With Regards, Amit Kapila. EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers