On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> If you change a parameter that only has effect during recovery then
>> must get an error if it is changed during normal running.
>
> I don't see why. If you're in normal running and someone changes a
> parameter that is irrelevant during normal running, that should be a
> no-op, not an error.
How will it be made into a no-op, except by having a specific flag to
show that it is irrelevant during normal running?
Fujii is saying we only need to mark GUCs if we keep recovery.conf. I
am saying we need to mark them whatever we do elsewhere.
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