Stephen Frost escribió:
> There are counter-examples also; sysctl.d will replace what's already
> been set, so perhaps it simply depends on an individual's experience.
> For my part, I'd much prefer an error or warning saying "you've got
> duplicate definitions of X" than a last-wins approach, though perhaps
> that's just because I like things to be very explicit and clear.
> Allowing multiple definitions of the same parameter to be valid isn't
> 'clear' to me.
One of the elements that had to be in place for this whole thing of
multiple configuration files to be allowed was for pg_settings to
include precise information about, for each setting, where is its value
coming from. I doubt any of the systems you mentioned have comparable
functionality. If the admin has trouble figuring it out, he needs only
look into that view.
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