David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> writes: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 03:52:07PM +0900, Ian Barwick wrote: >> On 8/4/19 1:59 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> I think we should just accept the facts on the ground, which are that >>> some tools modify pg.auto.conf by appending to it
>> +1. It's just a text file... > So are crontab and /etc/passwd, but there are gizmos that help make it > difficult for people to write complete gobbledygook to those. Does it > make sense to discuss tooling of that type? Perhaps as a future improvement, but it's not happening for v12, at least not unless you accept "use ALTER SYSTEM in a standalone backend" as a usable answer. regards, tom lane