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

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>
Cc: 'Dimitri Fontaine' <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, 'Tom Lane' <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 'Fujii Masao' <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, cedric(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, 'Robert Haas' <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, 'Greg Smith' <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, 'Josh Berkus' <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, 'Magnus Hagander' <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, 'Christopher Browne' <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL
Date: 2012-11-19 15:05:56
Message-ID: 20121119150555.GB4196@alvh.no-ip.org
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Amit Kapila escribió:

> The only point I can see against SET PERSISTENT is that other variants of
> SET command can be used in
> transaction blocks means for them ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT functionality works,
> but for SET PERSISTENT,
> it can't be done.
> So to handle that might be we need to mention this point in User Manual, so
> that users can be aware of this usage.
> If that is okay, then I think SET PERSISTENT is good to go.

I think that's okay. There are other commands which have some forms
that can run inside a transaction block and others not. CLUSTER is
one example (maybe the only one? Not sure).

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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