| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
|---|---|
| To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(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: | 2013-08-21 14:52:01 |
| Message-ID: | 20130821145201.GT2706@tamriel.snowman.net |
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Martijn,
* Martijn van Oosterhout (kleptog(at)svana(dot)org) wrote:
> ISTM you want some kind of hybrid setting like:
>
> #include_system auto.conf
>
> which simultaneously does three things:
>
> 1. Sets the enable_alter_system flag
> 2. Indicates the file to use
> 3. Indicates the priority of the setting re other settings.
>
> Comment it out, ALTER SYSTEM stop working. Put it back and it's
> immediately clear what it means. And the user can control where the
> settings go.
Yeah, that's certainly an interesting idea. I might call it
'auto_conf_file auto.conf' to avoid the '#include' concern and to
perhaps clarify that it's more than just a regular 'include'.
> Syntax is a bit fugly though.
Agreed.
Thanks,
Stephen
(who is still unhappy about the GUC-specific handling for relative
paths in postgresql.conf)
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