Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])
Date: 2013-08-20 03:13:49
Message-ID: 20130820031348.GX2706@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Amit Kapila (amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> initdb will create the empty auto file. If we don't enable by default,
> then if user uses
> ALTER SYSTEM and do sighup/restart, changed config parameter values
> will not come into affect
> until he manually enables it by removing '#' from '#include'.

That's a pretty simple thing to detect and return an ERROR case on
though.

Thanks,

Stephen

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