On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 11:39:55AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
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> I agree repeated warnings would be bad news. I was wondering if we could
> arrange a single warning at the time pg_stat_statements is preloaded into
> the postmaster. In this way, if you tried to use a configuration file
> that used to work, you'd hopefully get some notice about why it no longer
> does what you want. Also, if you are preloading pg_stat_statements, it
> seems reasonable to assume that you'd like the global value of the flag
> to be "on", even if there are use-cases for transiently disabling it.
What about people who wants to use pg_stat_statements but are not ok with our
query_id heuristics and use a third-party plugin for that?