Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> It might be nice to do something about the fact that you can't change
> archive_mode without a server restart, though. I suspect we had a good
> reason for that limitation from an engineering perspective, but from a
> user perspective, it sucks pretty hard.
Agreed. I don't recall what the motivation for that was, but
maybe it could be fixed with some more elbow grease.
regards, tom lane