On 27.01.23 15:48, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Btw., something that I have had in my notes for a while, but with this
> it would now be officially exposed: Not all options can be safely set
> during bootstrap. For example,
>
> initdb -D data -c track_commit_timestamp=on
>
> will fail an assertion. This might be an exception, or there might be
> others.
I ran a test across all changeable boolean parameters with initdb
setting it to the opposite of their default. The only one besides
track_commit_timestamp that caused initdb to not complete was
default_transaction_read_only, which is to be expected.
We should fix track_commit_timestamp, but it doesn't look like there is
wider impact. (Obviously, this tested only boolean settings. If
someone wants to fuzz-test the others ...)