From 5b8ac710423bcb88948d36c8679e4a48a73ae72e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 22:19:31 +0000
Subject: Support include directives in postgresql.conf. Patch by Joachim
 Wieland, somewhat reworked for clarity and portability.

---
 doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/src')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 710f1b93d16..77a742e0450 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.48 2006/03/03 22:02:07 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.49 2006/03/04 22:19:31 tgl Exp $
 -->
 <chapter Id="runtime-config">
   <title>Server Configuration</title>
@@ -47,7 +47,24 @@ search_path = '"$user", public'
     anywhere.  Parameter values that are not simple identifiers or
     numbers must be single-quoted.  To embed a single quote in a parameter
     value, write either two quotes (preferred) or backslash-quote.
-  </para>
+   </para>
+
+   <para>
+    <indexterm>
+     <primary><literal>include</></primary>
+     <secondary>in configuration file</secondary>
+    </indexterm>
+    In addition to parameter settings, the <filename>postgresql.conf</>
+    file can contain <firstterm>include directives</>, which specify
+    another file to read and process as if it were inserted into the
+    configuration file at this point.  Include directives simply look like
+<programlisting>
+include 'filename'
+</programlisting>
+    If the filename is not an absolute path, it is taken as relative to
+    the directory containing the referencing configuration file.
+    Inclusions can be nested.
+   </para>
 
    <para>
     <indexterm>
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