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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: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-08-05T18:29:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> All we need to do to resolve this issue is have Tom commit his patch.

I think Stephen is not being unreasonable to suggest that we need some
documentation about what external tools may safely do to pg.auto.conf.
So somebody's got to write that.  But I agree that we could go ahead
with the code patch.

(At this point I won't risk doing so before the wrap, though.)

			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.