| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: another idea for changing global configuration settings from SQL |
| Date: | 2012-11-16 17:05:17 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZ66HKgLFBSZ-Dd6s+v0ygDawPP+z7BKU5-WT9VrtA5Tg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Another and probably bigger thing is that SIGHUP is used for settings
> that do something useful only in background processes (eg checkpointer).
> Some of those processes are not capable of reading system catalogs at
> all. This is particularly a showstopper for settings affecting the
> postmaster itself, which is most certainly *not* going to grow the
> ability to read catalogs.
This seems like a pretty large strike against this whole idea. In
fact, I think we might want to abandon this whole approach on this
basis.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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