2011/9/1 Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> Well, we could make initdb patch it up, but that might seem excessive.
>
> I sometime wonder if archive_mode shouldn't default to "on" with the
> archive_command set to either '/bin/true' or 'rem' for windows.
>
> That allows to install proper archiving without restart, but the
> tradeoff is of course that you need to restart to enable some
> optimisation cases by turning archive_mode off.
Seems like it would be better to fix archive_mode so that it can be
changed without a restart.
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