Re: For review: Server instrumentation patch

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> It also just strikes me as just the wrong way to go about solving the 
> apparent problem. If we want to make remote configuration or other 
> operations possible, then instead of granting access to server resident 
> files we should invent and implement an API that provides superusers the 
> appropriate operations.  For one thing, this would mean that if we ever 
> decided to replace the current flat file system we use with something 
> else we need not break clients that use the API. Just granting file 
> access even if restricted to the data dir strikes me as a kludge.

I thought an API for postgresql.conf is what we agreed to, but I don't
see it on the TODO list.  Is that correct?

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