| From: | Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> |
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| To: | andres(at)anarazel(dot)de |
| Cc: | a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Warn users about duplicate configuration parameters |
| Date: | 2017-04-07 15:22:32 |
| Message-ID: | 20170408.002232.1519131147151674043.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp |
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>> Recently I've discovered that if there are multiple values of the same
>> parameter in postgresql.conf PostgreSQL will silently use the last one.
>> It looks like not the best approach to me. For instance, user can find
>> the first value in the config file and expect that it will be used, etc.
>>
>> I suggest to warn users about duplicated parameters. Here is a
>> corresponding patch.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> -1 - I frequently just override earlier parameters by adding an include
> at the end of the file. Also, with postgresql.auto.conf it's even more
> common to override parameters.
-1 from me too by the same reason Andres said.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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