Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> There are a bunch of other GUC assign hooks that behave similarly.
>> Perhaps it'd be sensible to emit these complaints as LOG messages
>> when we're dealing with a noninteractive source (ie, the config file)?
> I was wondering whether we could make this error message (and
> equivalent ones) be the FATAL one that prevents the server from
> starting.
There is some good reason, which I don't recall at the moment, why
assign-hooks (and most of the rest of GUC) shouldn't FATAL in the
middle of processing a config file. However a LOG seems relatively
harmless, and better than not emitting anything.
regards, tom lane
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