Re: another idea for changing global configuration settings from SQL

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Another and probably bigger thing is that SIGHUP is used for settings
> that do something useful only in background processes (eg checkpointer).
> Some of those processes are not capable of reading system catalogs at
> all.  This is particularly a showstopper for settings affecting the
> postmaster itself, which is most certainly *not* going to grow the
> ability to read catalogs.

This seems like a pretty large strike against this whole idea.  In
fact, I think we might want to abandon this whole approach on this
basis.

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