On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I agree with Robert that that is an utterly horrid, broken concept.
That's a little stronger than what I said, though the same general idea.
> Just to point out one concrete problem: the postmaster reads
> postgresql.conf too, so it would have to do this as well in order to
> parse postgresql.conf correctly.
This is an even more serious problem than what I was pointing out.
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