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>

From: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2013-08-01T14:40:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Why isn't it enough to just dump out all variables with a source of alter
system to a text file? You can either have a single global lock around that
operation or write it to a new file and move it into place.

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greg
On 1 Aug 2013 15:19, "Andres Freund" <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> On 2013-08-01 15:17:04 +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
> > We don't need per guc locking. This is the whole objection Tom had about
> > this patch being more complex than it has to be.
>
> IIRC he objected to using locking *at all* because a simple
> one-file-per-setting approach should be used.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andres Freund
>
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