pgsql: Don't allow data_directory to be set in postgresql.auto.conf by - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Don't allow data_directory to be set in postgresql.auto.conf by ALTER SYSTEM.

data_directory could be set both in postgresql.conf and postgresql.auto.conf so far.
This could cause some problematic situations like circular definition. To avoid such
situations, this commit forbids a user to set data_directory in postgresql.auto.conf.

Backpatch this to 9.4 where ALTER SYSTEM command was introduced.

Amit Kapila, reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen, with minor adjustments by me.

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9ba78fb0b9e6c5a7115592c2c3116fca16b5184e

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_system.sgml |   10 ++++++++++
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c       |   21 +++++++++++++++------
src/include/utils/guc.h            |    1 +
3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)