Greetings, * Magnus Hagander (mag...@hagander.net) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 5:41 PM Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > > I'd further say something along the lines of 'utilities should not > > modify a postgresql.auto.conf that's in place under a running PostgreSQL > > cluster'. > > Do we need to differ between "external" and "internal" utilities here?
I don't think so..? Is there something there that you're thinking would be different between them? > > I'd rather say that 'any duplicate items should be removed, and a > > WARNING emitted when detected', or something along those lines. Same > > for comment lines... > > I think it's perfectly fine to silently drop comments (other than the one > at the very top which says don't touch this file). I'm not sure why that's different? I don't really think that I agree with you on this one- anything showing up in that file that we're ending up removing must have gotten there because someone or something didn't realize the rules around managing the file, and that's a problem... Thanks, Stephen
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