Re: Any potential race condition danger from repeated config entries? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Any potential race condition danger from repeated config entries?
Date
Msg-id 1786.1389741413@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Any potential race condition danger from repeated config entries?  (Erik Jones <ejones@engineyard.com>)
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Erik Jones <ejones@engineyard.com> writes:
> For example, checkpoint_segments set to 10 in the main postgresql.conf and then set to 100 in an file included at the
endof the main config results in log messages like the following when a reload is issued: 
> 2014-01-14 11:10:22.597 PST,,,22347,,52b8a115.574b,6,,2013-12-23 12:46:13 PST,,0,LOG,00000,"parameter
""checkpoint_segments""changed to ""10""",,,,,,,,,"" 
> 2014-01-14 11:10:22.597 PST,,,22347,,52b8a115.574b,7,,2013-12-23 12:46:13 PST,,0,LOG,00000,"parameter
""checkpoint_segments""changed to ""100""",,,,,,,,,"" 

> At that point the server is running with a value of 100 for checkpoint segments.  Another reload results in the same
twomessages.  Is there any danger from it being dropped to 10 and immediately set back to 100? 

No.  Any one process is going to read the whole config file(s) before it
does anything with the new values, so the only actual effect of the
earlier setting is the excess bleating in the postmaster log.

            regards, tom lane


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