* Andres Freund (and...@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: > I personally consider readers of this list persons... And even people > not interested in internals will have to look in there if they set > something stupid before. Like setting max_connections higher than the > currently configured kernel's max number of semaphores. Or a good number > of other settings.
And that's actually one of the issues that I have with this overall
approach.. If configurations can be set in 'data' areas which prevent
the system from starting, that's *bad*. Very bad. It means people will
not be able to trust PG to manage the configuration sanely and will have
a lot of distrust and fear of the ALTER SYSTEM capability.
Requiring users to go monkey around inside of a system data directory to
clean things up in order to get PG to come up is a situation we should
do our best to prevent from ever happening.
Thanks,
Stephen
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