On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 9:05 AM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
>
> The following hack works for me. Apart from being ugly, it's
> fundamentally unsatisfactory because the question of whether the
> setting has been activated is left unsettled
>
Starting with 9.5 we've at least made the parsing of the configuration file
unnecessary:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/view-pg-file-settings.html
David J.