Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> All we need to do to resolve this issue is have Tom commit his patch.
I think Stephen is not being unreasonable to suggest that we need some
documentation about what external tools may safely do to pg.auto.conf.
So somebody's got to write that. But I agree that we could go ahead
with the code patch.
(At this point I won't risk doing so before the wrap, though.)
regards, tom lane