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

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:38:52AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> > * Amit Kapila (amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> >> If both are okay, then I would like to go with second option (include
> >> file mechanism).
> >> I think by default, we should allow auto file to be included and if
> >> user faces any problem or otherwise,
> >> then he can decide to disable it.
> >
> > If it's enabled by default, then we need to ship an 'auto' file which is
> > empty by default...
>
> 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'.

Just a heads-up, but a lot of C language folks are going to look at:

#include abc

and think that is enabled.

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