Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Warn users about duplicate configuration parameters

2017-04-07 Thread David G. Johnston
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Aleksander Alekseev < a.aleks...@postgrespro.ru> wrote: > Andres, Tatsuo, > > Thank you for sharing your thoughts. > > > -1 - I frequently just override earlier parameters by adding an > > include at the end of the file. Also, with postgresql.auto.conf it's > > eve

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Warn users about duplicate configuration parameters

2017-04-07 Thread Euler Taveira
2017-04-07 12:14 GMT-03:00 Aleksander Alekseev : > Recently I've discovered that if there are multiple values of the same > parameter in postgresql.conf PostgreSQL will silently use the last one. > It looks like not the best approach to me. For instance, user can find > the first value in the conf

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Warn users about duplicate configuration parameters

2017-04-07 Thread David Steele
On 4/7/17 11:22 AM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: >>> Recently I've discovered that if there are multiple values of the same >>> parameter in postgresql.conf PostgreSQL will silently use the last one. >>> It looks like not the best approach to me. For instance, user can find >>> the first value in the config

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Warn users about duplicate configuration parameters

2017-04-07 Thread Andres Freund
On 2017-04-07 18:29:40 +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: > Andres, Tatsuo, > > Thank you for sharing your thoughts. > > > -1 - I frequently just override earlier parameters by adding an > > include at the end of the file. Also, with postgresql.auto.conf it's > > even more common to override para

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Warn users about duplicate configuration parameters

2017-04-07 Thread Aleksander Alekseev
Andres, Tatsuo, Thank you for sharing your thoughts. > -1 - I frequently just override earlier parameters by adding an > include at the end of the file. Also, with postgresql.auto.conf it's > even more common to override parameters. > -1 from me too by the same reason Andres said. I see no pro

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Warn users about duplicate configuration parameters

2017-04-07 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
>> Recently I've discovered that if there are multiple values of the same >> parameter in postgresql.conf PostgreSQL will silently use the last one. >> It looks like not the best approach to me. For instance, user can find >> the first value in the config file and expect that it will be used, etc.

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Warn users about duplicate configuration parameters

2017-04-07 Thread Andres Freund
On 2017-04-07 18:14:27 +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: > Hi. > > Recently I've discovered that if there are multiple values of the same > parameter in postgresql.conf PostgreSQL will silently use the last one. > It looks like not the best approach to me. For instance, user can find > the first v