On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:15:14PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: > > Agreed, but I think this is a much larger issue than ALTER SYSTEM SET. > > Yeah, true. > > > I think changing behavior to first-seen would only add to confusion. > > What we really need is a WARNING when a later postgresql.conf setting > > overrides an earlier one, and ALTER SYSTEM SET's config file could > > behave the same, so you would know right away when you were overriding > > something in postgresql.conf that appeared earlier. > > A warning would be nice. If only everyone read the log files. :/
I would expect ALTER SYSTEM SET to return a WARNING in such cases too. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
