On 01/30/2014 03:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes:
On 12/22/2013 11:30 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
- * backend start.
+ * backend start. However for windows, we need to process
+ * config file during backend start for non-default
parameters,
+ * so we need to allow change of PGC_BACKEND during backend
+ * startup.
*/
- if (IsUnderPostmaster)
+ if (IsUnderPostmaster && !IsInitProcessingMode())
return -1;
}
I think this change looks OK.
The comment is pretty awful, since this is neither Windows-specific nor
a read of the config file. Perhaps more like "However, in EXEC_BACKEND
builds we load nondefault settings from the CONFIG_EXEC_PARAMS file during
backend start. In that situation we should accept PGC_SIGHUP
settings, so as to have the same value as if we'd forked from the
postmaster."
Also, I think that the extra test should only be made #ifdef EXEC_BACKEND,
so as to minimize the risk of breaking things. Not that this isn't pretty
darn fragile anyway; I think testing IsInitProcessingMode here is a very
random way to detect this case. I wonder if it'd be better to pass down
an explicit flag indicating that we're doing read_nondefault_variables().
If we don't do that, maybe an Assert(IsInitProcessingMode()) in
read_nondefault_variables() would be a good thing.
OK, I've added your comment to the commitfest item and marked it as
"Waiting on Author".
cheers
andrew
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