# question about group\_vars **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [April 25, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-about-group-vars/12719 "2013-04-25T06:30:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yves\_Dorfsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yves\_Dorfsman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Yves_Dorfsman)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-about-group-vars/12719/1 "2013-04-25T06:30:59Z")
I've been busy and out of the loop, looking through the documentation I see a lot of new functionalities have been added to ansible! The one I am most exited about is the group\_vars, we have already implemented something similar through a bunch of includes, but this makes it much simpler, but have questions about it. Assuming this host file:      # host file      [postgres\_master]      damaster      [postgres\_slave]      daslave      [postgres:children]      postgres\_master      postgres\_slave Do I just create this structure: group\_vars/postgres            /postgres\_master            /postgres\_slave Will "damaster" load variables from both group\_vars/postgres and group\_vars/postgres\_master? Can I add the .yml or .yaml extension to the group\_vars files, or do they need to be extension-less (some editor only do syntax highlighting when the right extension is there)? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-about-group-vars/12719/2 "2013-04-25T07:02:08Z")
Hi Yves,