Re: Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>, 'Greg Stark' <stark@mit.edu>, 'Alvaro Herrera' <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, 'Fujii Masao' <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, 'Robert Haas' <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, 'Dimitri Fontaine' <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, 'Josh Berkus' <josh@agliodbs.com>, 'Tom Lane' <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2013-08-02T13:45:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2013-08-02 08:41:09 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Perhaps having the file be a heap file instead of anything a sysadmin
> can be asked to go hack would also make it more clear that this is an
> internal PG file which is to be managed only through PG and stop all
> this arguing about how "oh, they can just fix it by twiddling things in
> $PGDATA" is considered by some to be an acceptable solution.  Heck, it'd
> also keep the number of files down while allowing more fine-grained
> modifications and writes (iow, we wouldn't have to rewrite the whole
> file every time..).

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