On Saturday 02 August 2008 13:36:40 Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> >> Seems a lot better to me to just train people to run the check-config
> >> code by hand before pulling the trigger to load the settings for real.
> >
> > Or just have pg_ctl --check-first as an option. Cautious DBAs would use
> > that. In 2-3 versions, we can make --check-first the default, and
> > require the option --dont-check for unattended restarts.
>
> If the config file is known to be broken, why should you *ever* allow it
> to try to restart it?
>
Certainly there isn't any reason to allow a reload of a file that is just
going to break things when the first connection happens. For that matter,
why would we ever not want to parse it at HUP time rather than connect time?
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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
