Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL
Date: 2012-11-07 17:29:03
Message-ID: 11260.1352309343@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> You could dig it out of the stack if it's there, but that doesn't fix
>> the race-condition aspect. Now a race is inevitable if two sessions try
>> to set the *same* variable, but I think people will be unhappy if a SET
>> on one variable makes a recent SET on some other variable disappear.

> I think if we require an exclusive lock on a single global lock for
> "set permanent", people are quite ok with that, really.

That doesn't fix it either, at least not without a whole lot of other
changes --- we don't normally read the config file within-commands,
and there are both semantic and implementation problems to overcome
if you want to do so.

regards, tom lane

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