Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
> I disagree. While we don't guarantee stats are absolutely up-to-date,
> or atomic I don't think that gives license for them to just magically
> not exist sometimes.
> Would it really be that hard to have the system copy the file out
> before telling all the other backends of the change?
Well, there is no (zero, zilch, nada) use-case for changing this setting
on the fly. Why not make it a "frozen at postmaster start" GUC? Seems
like that gets all the functionality needed and most of the ease of use.
regards, tom lane