Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> writes: > Do we really need to store the settings in a system table? > Since WAL would be generated when storing the settings > in a system table, this approach seems to prevent us from > changing the settings in the standby.
That's a really good point: if we try to move all GUCs into a system table, there's no way for a standby to have different values; and for some of them different values are *necessary*. I think that shoots down this line of thought entirely. Can we go back to the plain "write a file" approach now? I think a "SET PERSISTENT" command that's disallowed in transaction blocks and just writes the file immediately is perfectly sensible. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers