Re: postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

From: Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory
Date: 2014-06-16 08:55:09
Message-ID: 20140616085509.GA6964@msg.df7cb.de
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Re: Amit Kapila 2014-06-16 <CAA4eK1++wcFswhzH=92qiQFB=C0_Uy=mReadvHZXdrF3JOWX6A(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
> Developer options are mainly for debugging information or might help in one
> of the situations, so I thought somebody might not want them to be part of
> server configuration once they are set. We already disallow parameters like
> config_file, transaction_isolation, etc. which are disallowed to be set in
> postgresql.conf. Could you please explain me a bit in which
> situations/scenarios, do you think that allowing developer options via Alter
> System can be helpful?

Oh if these are disallowed in postgresql.conf, they should be
disallowed in auto.conf too. I meant to say that there shouldn't be
additional restrictions for auto.conf, except for cases like
data_directory which won't work at all (or are highly confusing).

Christoph
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