* Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> Agreed, but I think this is a much larger issue than ALTER SYSTEM SET.
Yeah, true.
> I think changing behavior to first-seen would only add to confusion.
> What we really need is a WARNING when a later postgresql.conf setting
> overrides an earlier one, and ALTER SYSTEM SET's config file could
> behave the same, so you would know right away when you were overriding
> something in postgresql.conf that appeared earlier.
A warning would be nice. If only everyone read the log files. :/
Thanks,
Stephen