Re: postgresql.auto.conf and reload

On 07/08/2014 10:07 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I haven't looked at the code in this area too carefully, but it seems
> to me like the flow ought to be:
> 
> 1. Read all of the config files and determine what the final value
> present in each config file is.
> 2. *Then*, in a second pass, enforce requirements like "can't be
> changed except at server start".

+1

This would also make conf.d much more useful; I wouldn't have to worry
as much about overlapping config settings.

Sounds like a 9.5 feature, though.

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