Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL

On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 11:24:20 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> The fact that this isn't being done by a large number of
> people (is anybody at all actually doing it?) suggests to me that maybe
> the demand isn't all that great.

It might also be that the idea of implementing that yourself is quite scary.

Also you would need to parse the file to reset values which isn't exactly 
easy... I think it only really becomes viable with the introduction of 
directory includes where you can use one file per value.

Andres
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