On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> How would we handle decreases at run time? We can prevent >=archive ->
> minimal if archiving is running or there are physical replication slots,
> and we can prevent logical -> something less if there are logical
> replication slots, but AFAICT, we don't have a way to check whether
> anyone currently needs level hot_standby.
What do you mean by "prevent"? If the user edits postgresql.conf and
reduces the setting, and then reloads the configuration file, they
have a right to expect that the changes got applied.
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