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

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Cédric Villemain <cedric@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Date: 2013-08-30T12:55:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
* Andres Freund (andres@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> On 2013-08-30 10:20:48 +0200, Cédric Villemain wrote:
> > Grammar can be added later when the feature is stable.
> 
> Could you explain the advantages of this? It will require users to get
> used to different interfaces and we will end up maintaining both just
> about forever. And I don't see the grammar being that contentious?

The "different interfaces" issue already exists, to some extent, as
adminpack does exist already and this is clearly a different interface
from that.  That said, as I mentioned just now elsewhere, I agree that
the grammar itself (being rather simple anyway...) isn't the contentious
part of this.

	Thanks,

		Stephen