| From: | Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andy Colson <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: REVIEW proposal: a validator for configuration files |
| Date: | 2011-09-12 21:09:10 |
| Message-ID: | 3C6843DF-FD8F-4A62-9451-7214453B7894@commandprompt.com |
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On Sep 12, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On ons, 2011-09-07 at 10:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There has however
>> been some debate about the exact extent of ignoring bad values during
>> reload --- currently the theory is "ignore the whole file if anything is
>> wrong", but there's some support for applying all non-bad values as long
>> as the overall file syntax is okay.
>
> That could be a problem if you have some values that depend on each
> other, and then you change both of them, but because of an error only
> one gets applied. I think ACID(-like) changes is a feature, also on
> this level.
>
I think exactly this argument has already been discussed earlier in this thread:
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/21310D95-EB8D-4B15-A8BC-0F05505C6A34@phlo.org
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