TODO: Mark change-on-restart-only values in postgresql.conf

Zdenek,

I would like to implement "Mark change-on-restart-only values in
postgresql.conf" item. Anybody works on this? Does it mean add extra
comment to postgresql.conf for variable which has PG_POSTMASTER context?

Somehow I thought you'd already submitted a patch?

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

Josh Berkus wrote:

Zdenek,

I would like to implement "Mark change-on-restart-only values in
postgresql.conf" item. Anybody works on this? Does it mean add extra
comment to postgresql.conf for variable which has PG_POSTMASTER context?

Somehow I thought you'd already submitted a patch?

I sent patch for relatively related problem when somebody commenting out
item in the configuration file. This item is look like easy, but I
surprise that this item does not have % prefix. The question is if it is
only about adding extra comments to postgresql.conf file.

Zdenek

On Jul 17, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Zdenek Kotala wrote:

Josh Berkus wrote:

Zdenek,

I would like to implement "Mark change-on-restart-only values in
postgresql.conf" item. Anybody works on this? Does it mean add extra
comment to postgresql.conf for variable which has PG_POSTMASTER
context?

Somehow I thought you'd already submitted a patch?

I sent patch for relatively related problem when somebody
commenting out item in the configuration file. This item is look
like easy, but I surprise that this item does not have % prefix.
The question is if it is only about adding extra comments to
postgresql.conf file.

If memory serves, we also wanted to have the postmaster log a warning
if it reloaded postgresql.conf and found values that had changed but
wouldn't take effect until restart. So presumably the postmaster
would have to keep an in-memory copy of the parsed postgresql.conf
and compare that with the parsed copy it gets after reloading
postgresql.conf.
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Jim Nasby wrote:

If memory serves, we also wanted to have the postmaster log a warning
if it reloaded postgresql.conf and found values that had changed but
wouldn't take effect until restart.

It already does that.

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