Re: File-per-GUC WAS: Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, Aug  5, 2013 at 02:02:50PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Josh Berkus (josh@agliodbs.com) wrote:
> > I'll also point out that some of our settings only really "work" in
> > combinations of two or more settings.  For example, one doesn't want to
> > set archive_mode = on unless one is setting archive_command as well.
> 
> And one doesn't want to set archive_command w/o doing some kind of setup
> work on the server in question, perhaps setting up SSH keys or putting a
> decent shell script in place to be called from archive_command.  That's
> part of my issue w/ this- the parameters which can't be set up correctly
> through sole use of "ALTER SYSTEM" should be excluded from it and
> instead set up through a config file.

Yes, but many setting changes don't require file system changes.

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