Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-21 Thread Thom Brown
On 21 June 2013 05:47, Gurjeet Singh wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Dimitri Fontaine >> wrote: >> > Magnus Hagander writes: >> >>> Should we have a way of previewing changes that would be applied if we >> >>> reloaded/resta

Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Dimitri Fontaine > wrote: > > Magnus Hagander writes: > >>> Should we have a way of previewing changes that would be applied if we > >>> reloaded/restarted the server? > >> > >> Yes, we should. > > > > +1

Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > Magnus Hagander writes: >>> Should we have a way of previewing changes that would be applied if we >>> reloaded/restarted the server? >> >> Yes, we should. > > +1 > >> This would go well with something I started working on some time ago >

Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Magnus Hagander writes: >> Should we have a way of previewing changes that would be applied if we >> reloaded/restarted the server? > > Yes, we should. +1 > This would go well with something I started working on some time ago > (but haven't actually gotten far on at all), which is the ability fo

Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Thom Brown
On 20 June 2013 13:16, Pavan Deolasee wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Thom Brown wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've noticed that there's no easy way of checking which settings will >> change if the config is reloaded, and I think not being able to do this can >> cause some unfortunate pr

Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Thom Brown wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed that there's no easy way of checking which settings will > change if the config is reloaded, and I think not being able to do this can > cause some unfortunate problems. > > For example, a customer went to change their conf

Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Thom Brown wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed that there's no easy way of checking which settings will change > if the config is reloaded, and I think not being able to do this can cause > some unfortunate problems. > > For example, a customer went to change their confi

[HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Thom Brown
Hi, I've noticed that there's no easy way of checking which settings will change if the config is reloaded, and I think not being able to do this can cause some unfortunate problems. For example, a customer went to change their configuration, just setting log_autovacuum_min_duration to about 20 s