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Re: REVIEW proposal: a validator for configuration files

Alexey Klyukin <alexk@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alexey Klyukin <alexk@commandprompt.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-09-12T21:09:10Z
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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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