On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 09:31:49AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> I am not sure that neither mentioning nor recommending SHOW for this
> area is a good idea, the point being to encourage its use before the
> server is running as we don't want to allocate anything when tuning
> it.
Agreed.
> Point taken that the current wording can be confusing because of the
> "*must* be shut down". How about doing a simpler s/must/should/ for a
> softer wording?
Well, the point is that you can't use "postgres -C" to view this GUC while
the server is running. I can see how the present wording might be
misinterpreted, though. Perhaps we should change this sentence to
something like:
Note that the server must be shut down to view this runtime-computed
parameter with the postgres command.
--
nathan