Jim Nasby wrote:
For archive_mode you should check the archives; where was discussion on exactly why we can only enable archiving on restart. That GUC was added specifically so that archive_command didn't require a restart
I linked the most relevant bits from the archives into http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ClusterFeatures#Start.2Fstop_archiving_at_runtime
This item was pretty high up on the last round of hacker polling at the clustering meeting that list came out of. But since it's strictly convenient rather than a new feature, it's hard to justify working on, given the fixed pool of people who feel comfortable working on this code.
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