"Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:15 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It strikes me that allowing archive_command to be changed on the fly
>> might not be such a good idea though, or at least it shouldn't be
>> possible to flip it from empty to nonempty during live operation.
> I'd rather fix it the proposed way than force a restart. ISTM wrong to
> have an availability feature cause downtime.
I don't think that people are very likely to need to turn archiving on
and off on-the-fly. Your proposed solution introduces a great deal of
complexity (and risk of future bugs-of-omission, to say nothing of race
conditions) to solve a non-problem. We have better things to be doing
with our development time.
regards, tom lane