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Re: Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])

Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>

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From: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-08-01T13:32:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
> we should review the implementation choice of the ALTER
> SYSTEM SET facility, and vote for having one-file-per-GUC.

Zombie crazy design idea arise!

I think people are going to laugh at us if an open source database
software can't manage a simple flat file database of settings,
especially one that is purely write-only and can be a simple dump of
settings that are set by alter system.

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greg