| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL |
| Date: | 2012-11-07 19:50:14 |
| Message-ID: | 509ABB76.7030005@agliodbs.com |
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> Well, Magnus' proposed implementation supposed that the existing values
> *have* been loaded into the current session. I agree that with some
> locking and yet more code you could implement it without that. But this
> still doesn't seem to offer any detectable benefit over value-per-file.
Well, value-per-file is ugly (imagine you've set 40 different variables
that way) but dodges a lot of complicated issues. And I suppose "ugly"
doesn't matter, because the whole idea of the auto-generated files is
that users aren't supposed to look at them anyway.
--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
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