Re: [PATCH] Stop ALTER SYSTEM from making bad assumptions

David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 03:52:07PM +0900, Ian Barwick wrote:
>> On 8/4/19 1:59 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I think we should just accept the facts on the ground, which are that
>>> some tools modify pg.auto.conf by appending to it

>> +1. It's just a text file...

> So are crontab and /etc/passwd, but there are gizmos that help make it
> difficult for people to write complete gobbledygook to those. Does it
> make sense to discuss tooling of that type?

Perhaps as a future improvement, but it's not happening for v12,
at least not unless you accept "use ALTER SYSTEM in a standalone
backend" as a usable answer.

            regards, tom lane