Re: For review: Server instrumentation patch

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> It also just strikes me as just the wrong way to go about solving the 
>> apparent problem.

> I thought an API for postgresql.conf is what we agreed to, but I don't
> see it on the TODO list.  Is that correct?

Like you, I seem to recall some prior discussion along this line, but
I think it didn't get solid enough to produce a TODO item.  Right now
the best we could do is
* Better support for remote database administration, eg, APIs  to change configuration and restart the postmaster

which is mighty vague.
        regards, tom lane