Re: Three Variations of postgresql.conf

[Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@xxxxxxxxx>]

To clarify.

To see the ACTUAL clusters installed, and the LIVE config directories, you use

pg_lsclusters.

pg_ctlclusters then can control each individual cluster

So, for example, since apparently you have the 9.4 version of PostgreSQL,

pg_ctlcluster 9.4 main status

would probably show you that the 9.4 version of PostgreSQL is active and will also show you the command line arguments used to start it.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 11/12/2015 08:07 AM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
>> In Ubuntu 14.10, there are three variations of the postgresql.conf
>> configuration file, as follows:
>>
>> /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.auto.conf
>> /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/postgresql.conf
>> /etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf

FWIW, I would imagine that /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/postgresql.conf is
a configuration file for the system's tmp-file-cleaner daemon
(probably telling it not to flush some postgres-related files),
not a PG config file at all.  If you look into it you'll likely
find that it doesn't look anything like PG configuration data.

As already noted, postgresql.auto.conf is not for hand-editing.

                        regards, tom lane

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