Re: mystery with postgresql.auto.conf

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Matthias Apitz <guru(at)unixarea(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: mystery with postgresql.auto.conf
Date: 2024-04-10 14:26:05
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Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 2024年4月10日(水) 21:40 Matthias Apitz <guru(at)unixarea(dot)de>:
>> Why it does not give an error because the shared lib isn't there?

> ALTER SYSTEM is a way of modifying the PostgreSQL configuration file
> via SQL; just as when you modify it manually, changes are not applied
> until you actually reload the configuration.
> See: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altersystem.html

Even if you had issued a reload, you would not have noticed the
faulty setting without looking into the postmaster's log for
warning messages. The system wouldn't get in your face about it
until you did a postmaster restart.

regards, tom lane

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