Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])

* Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> Agreed, but I think this is a much larger issue than ALTER SYSTEM SET.

Yeah, true.

> I think changing behavior to first-seen would only add to confusion.
> What we really need is a WARNING when a later postgresql.conf setting
> overrides an earlier one, and ALTER SYSTEM SET's config file could
> behave the same, so you would know right away when you were overriding
> something in postgresql.conf that appeared earlier.

A warning would be nice.  If only everyone read the log files. :/
Thanks,
    Stephen