Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tom,
>
>> Seems a lot better to me to just train people to run the check-config
>> code by hand before pulling the trigger to load the settings for real.
>
> Or just have pg_ctl --check-first as an option. Cautious DBAs would use
> that. In 2-3 versions, we can make --check-first the default, and
> require the option --dont-check for unattended restarts.
If the config file is known to be broken, why should you *ever* allow it
to try to restart it?
//Magnus