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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-08-15T15:22:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> In hopes of moving this along, I've pushed Ian's last code change,
>> as there seems to be no real argument about that anymore.
>> 
>> As for the doc changes, how about the attached revision of what
>> I wrote previously?  It gives some passing mention to what ALTER
>> SYSTEM will do, without belaboring it or going into things that
>> are really implementation details.

> It's certainly better than what we have now.

Hearing no other comments, I've pushed that and marked this issue closed.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Doc: improve documentation about postgresql.auto.conf.

  2. Fix ALTER SYSTEM to cope with duplicate entries in postgresql.auto.conf.