Re: Add a GUC check hook to ensure summarize_wal cannot be enabled when wal_level is minimal - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 01:02:25AM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On 2024/07/10 23:18, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> Yeah.  I initially thought this patch might be okay, at least as a stopgap,
>> but Jelte pointed out a case where it doesn't work, namely when you have
>> something like the following in the config file:
>> 
>>     wal_level = 'minimal'
>>     summarize_wal = 'true'
>>     wal_level = 'logical'
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, the patch works fine in this case. If the check_hook
> triggered every time a parameter appears in the configuration file,
> it would mistakenly detect wal_level=minimal and summarize_wal=on together
> and raise an error. However, this isn't the case. The check_hook is
> designed to trigger after duplicate parameters are deduplicated.
> Am I missing something?

After further research, I think you are right about that.

-- 
nathan