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

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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: 2019-08-05T18:43:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 2:42 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I don't think we need to go on about it at great length, but it seems
> to me that it'd be reasonable to point out that (a) you'd be well
> advised not to touch the file while the postmaster is up, and (b)
> last setting wins.  Those things are equally true of postgresql.conf
> of course, but I don't recall whether they're already documented.

OK, fair enough.

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Robert Haas
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Commits

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

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