I wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: >> I think a commandline tool to perform the equivalent of ALTER SYSTEM on >> a shutdown cluster would be a great tool.
> Perhaps, but ...
>> Obviously this is widely out of scope for v12.
> ... this.
Although, there's always
echo "alter system set work_mem = 4242;" | postgres --single
Maybe we could recommend that to tools that need to do
potentially-repetitive modifications?
regards, tom lane
