Re: Turning recovery.conf into GUCs

Stephen Frost wrote
> * Alvaro Herrera (

> alvherre@

> ) wrote:
>> Stephen Frost wrote:
>> > * Amit Kapila (

> amit.kapila16@

> ) wrote:
>> > > What exactly you mean by 'disable postgresql.auto.conf', do you
>> > > mean user runs Alter System to remove that entry or manually disable
>> > > some particular entry?
>>
>> Sigh, here we go again. I don't think you can disable
>> postgresql.auto.conf
>> in the current code. As I recall, the argument was that it's harder to
>> diagnose problems if postgresql.auto.conf takes effect in some system
>> but not others.
>
> I don't buy this at all. What's going to be terribly confusing is to
> have config changes start happening for users who are managing their
> configs through a CM (which most should be..). ALTER SYSTEM is going to
> cause more problems than it solves.

So what happens if someone makes postgresql.auto.conf read-only (to
everyone)?

David J.

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