Re: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>, "'Andres Freund'" <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "'Boszormenyi Zoltan'" <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]
Date: 2013-03-11 00:02:13
Message-ID: 513D1F05.40600@2ndquadrant.com
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On 03/10/2013 11:12 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
>
> 5) An error message appears every time you reload configuration, if
> some part of the SET PERSISTENT mechanism isn't functional. This is
> going to be too much for some people. And it's confusing when it
> happens as part an interactive psql session. I have an example way
> down at the very end of this message.
An error when `SET PERSISTENT` is actually run seems sufficient to me if
the `config` dir is absent.

If the config dir or auto config file exist but are not included, that
probably deserves a warning during startup.

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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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