Re: Enabling archive_mode without restart - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
>> Objections?
> 
> Why is this worth spending effort on?

The addition of archive_mode changeable with restart only was a 
significant loss of usability going from 8.2 to 8.3, in the minds of 
many people.