From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
        Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>,
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Subject: Re: Set arbitrary GUC options during initdb
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Comments: In-reply-to "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 8:53 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Anyway, it seems like I gotta work harder.  I'll produce a
>> new patch.

> How about just adding a "section" to the end of the file as needed:

> # AdHoc Settings Specified During InitDB
> max_connections=75
> ...

Nah, I think that would be impossibly confusing.  One way or another
the live setting has to be near where the GUC is documented.

We will have to do add-at-the-end for custom GUCs, of course,
but in that case there's no matching comment to confuse you.

			regards, tom lane