Re: [DOCS] explaining "context" column of pg_settings

2010-12-17 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Josh Kupershmidt wrote: >> I was rather surprised when I learned this from the description in >> guc.h of SIGHUP options. I tested by altering "full_page_writes" in >> postgresql.conf and sending a SIGHUP to one backend, and sure enough >> t

Re: [DOCS] explaining "context" column of pg_settings

2010-12-17 Thread Josh Kupershmidt
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote: > Alvaro Herrera escreveu: >> Perhaps we can replace the current "this setting requires a restart" >> boilerplate with "this setting has context foo" in setting descriptions, >> and have a pointer to wherever the description of each

Re: [DOCS] explaining "context" column of pg_settings

2010-12-17 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Josh Kupershmidt wrote: > I was rather surprised when I learned this from the description in > guc.h of SIGHUP options. I tested by altering "full_page_writes" in > postgresql.conf and sending a SIGHUP to one backend, and sure enough > that backend picked up the c

Re: [DOCS] explaining "context" column of pg_settings

2010-12-17 Thread Josh Kupershmidt
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Kupershmidt writes: > I did some work on this patch and attach an updated version. Thanks for taking a look at this. Your version is much more clear. > I'm not > however convinced that it's a good idea to bury this material in > catalogs.s

Re: [DOCS] explaining "context" column of pg_settings

2010-12-17 Thread Euler Taveira de Oliveira
Alvaro Herrera escreveu: > Perhaps we can replace the current "this setting requires a restart" > boilerplate with "this setting has context foo" in setting descriptions, > and have a pointer to wherever the description of each context is. > .. or even foo_param (integer) (restart) 'restart' is a

Re: [DOCS] explaining "context" column of pg_settings

2010-12-17 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue dic 16 21:11:49 -0300 2010: >> I did some work on this patch and attach an updated version. I'm not >> however convinced that it's a good idea to bury this material in >> catalogs.sgml --- I think few people ever read that chapter.