| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>, "'Andres Freund'" <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "'Greg Stark'" <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, "'Alvaro Herrera'" <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "'Fujii Masao'" <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, "'Robert Haas'" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "'Dimitri Fontaine'" <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]) |
| Date: | 2013-08-02 19:23:29 |
| Message-ID: | 6742.1375471409@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * Josh Berkus (josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com) wrote:
>> A much simpler solution to the issue Stephen proposes is to have a way
>> to start up the server with all settings from ALTER SYSTEM SET disabled,
>> just like some software allows you to start it up in "safe mode".
> See above for why I'm not thrilled wih this approach, unless it was set
> up to happen automatically, but you couldn't simply ignore *all* the
> ALTER SYSTEM SET parameters because then you might not be able to
> connect in due to some ALTER SYSTEM SET parameter being necessary for
> remote connectivity or authentication.
Yeah, this approach is a nonstarter because there's no reason to assume
that a postmaster started with default parameters will start successfully,
or will be connectable-to if it does start. Maybe there's another
postmaster hogging the default port, for instance.
regards, tom lane
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