Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > Perhaps having the file be a heap file instead of anything a sysadmin > can be asked to go hack would also make it more clear that this is an > internal PG file which is to be managed only through PG and stop all > this arguing about how "oh, they can just fix it by twiddling things in > $PGDATA" is considered by some to be an acceptable solution.
Whether you think it's acceptable or not, sometimes it's *necessary*. What if you set a combination of parameters that prevents Postgres from starting? Even if we could make config-in-a-catalog work, which I'm very dubious of, I would think it far too unsafe to use. We could of course fix that problem by only storing "safe" parameters in a catalog, but then you lose the supposed appeal of a single-file solution. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers