Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > * Josh Berkus (j...@agliodbs.com) wrote: >> A much simpler solution to the issue Stephen proposes is to have a way >> to start up the server with all settings from ALTER SYSTEM SET disabled, >> just like some software allows you to start it up in "safe mode".
> See above for why I'm not thrilled wih this approach, unless it was set > up to happen automatically, but you couldn't simply ignore *all* the > ALTER SYSTEM SET parameters because then you might not be able to > connect in due to some ALTER SYSTEM SET parameter being necessary for > remote connectivity or authentication. Yeah, this approach is a nonstarter because there's no reason to assume that a postmaster started with default parameters will start successfully, or will be connectable-to if it does start. Maybe there's another postmaster hogging the default port, for instance. 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