| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Disabling ALTER SYSTEM SET WAS: Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters |
| Date: | 2013-08-05 19:02:24 |
| Message-ID: | 20130805190224.GK11189@momjian.us |
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On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 02:52:40PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > However,
> > frankly, these are flat files, so I don't see a problem with having the
> > administrator modify the flat file.
>
> Admins on Ubuntu or Debian or a host of their derivatives aren't going
> to be looking in $PGDATA for config files that they have to hand-modify
> to fix something the DBA did. When they eventually figure it out,
> they're going to be *very* unhappy.
Well, can you assume that if you have a problem with one of your ALTER
SYSTEM SET commands, that disabling _all_ of them is going to get you a
running system? I question that, e.g. port. With postgresql.conf, you
can modify the bad entry, but how would that happen with ALTER SYSTEM
SET?
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