Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of GUC units code

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of GUC units code
Date: 2008-09-03 17:48:18
Message-ID: 20080903174818.GG4114@alvh.no-ip.org
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Hannu Krosing escribió:
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 09:10 -0700, Joshua Drake wrote:

> > If we are going to make sweeping statements (anyone on this thread)
> > about user-hostile and most people, then we better define what those
> > mean.
>
> Not user-hostile but rather hostile to an overworked DBA, who tries to
> change some .conf param from 1MB to 512KB at 3AM to save an overloaded
> server and then suddenly the server won't start anymore.

I think the energy wasted in this discussion would be better spent in
working a the check-the-config-file feature. That would equally solve
this problem, as well as many others.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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