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

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Ian Barwick <ian(dot)barwick(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop ALTER SYSTEM from making bad assumptions
Date: 2019-08-05 16:31:00
Message-ID: CA+TgmobXGnq_MqFnD4UnRVWYLrmjVadV_-OtxfxFkA_gpYDqzA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 12:25 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Perhaps as a future improvement, but it's not happening for v12,
> at least not unless you accept "use ALTER SYSTEM in a standalone
> backend" as a usable answer.

I'm not sure that would even work for the cases at issue ... because
we're talking about setting up recovery parameters, and wouldn't the
server run recovery before it got around to do anything with ALTER
SYSTEM?

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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