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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: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-08-05T16:31:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 12:25 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Perhaps as a future improvement, but it's not happening for v12,
> at least not unless you accept "use ALTER SYSTEM in a standalone
> backend" as a usable answer.

I'm not sure that would even work for the cases at issue ... because
we're talking about setting up recovery parameters, and wouldn't the
server run recovery before it got around to do anything with ALTER
SYSTEM?

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Commits

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

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