Re: unite recovery.conf and postgresql.conf

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-11-01T12:14:47Z
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  1. Restructure error handling in reading of postgresql.conf.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> If you change a parameter that only has effect during recovery then
>> must get an error if it is changed during normal running.
>
> I don't see why.  If you're in normal running and someone changes a
> parameter that is irrelevant during normal running, that should be a
> no-op, not an error.

How will it be made into a no-op, except by having a specific flag to
show that it is irrelevant during normal running?

Fujii is saying we only need to mark GUCs if we keep recovery.conf. I
am saying we need to mark them whatever we do elsewhere.

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