Re: [PATCH] Stop ALTER SYSTEM from making bad assumptions

On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:16:16PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Ian Barwick (ian(dot)barwick(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
>> On 8/6/19 9:52 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:> Greetings,
>>> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
>>>> Concretely, how about the attached?
>>>>
>>>> (Digging around in config.sgml, I found that last-one-wins is stated,
>>>> but only in the context of one include file overriding another.
>>>> That's not *directly* a statement about what happens within a single
>>>> file, and it's in a different subsection anyway, so repeating the
>>>> info in 19.1.2 doesn't seem unreasonable.)
>>>
>>> Agreed.
>>
>> +1.

I have read the latest patch from Tom and I have a suggestion about
this part:
+ and its settings take effect in the same way. Settings
+ in <filename>postgresql.auto.conf</filename> override those
+ in <filename>postgresql.conf</filename>.

It seems to me that we should mention included files here, as any
settings in postgresql.auto.conf override these as well.
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Michael