RAJAMOHAN <garajamohan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am trying to keep a symbolic link for the *postgresql.auto.conf* outside > the data directory. The link gets created but whenever I issue an alter > system statement it gets broken. This is not supported. Don't do it. The right way to keep the hand-maintained config files outside the data directory is not the way you've done it here, either. It might accidentally work, but the preferred way is to put "data_directory = whatever" in postgresql.conf and then start the postmaster with -D pointing at where the config files are. But in any case, postgresql.auto.conf is not hand-maintained; it is part of the cluster data, so it belongs in the data directory. regards, tom lane
