OK, removed.
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> Simon intended to commit this per
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01761.php
> (actually, there was a change in what was being done). I suspect this
> item isn't valid any longer.
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:30:58PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > This has been saved for the 8.4 release:
> >
> > http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches_hold
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > > > > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:15 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > >> It strikes me that allowing archive_command to be changed on the fly
> > > > >> might not be such a good idea though, or at least it shouldn't be
> > > > >> possible to flip it from empty to nonempty during live operation.
> > > >
> > > > > I'd rather fix it the proposed way than force a restart. ISTM wrong to
> > > > > have an availability feature cause downtime.
> > > >
> > > > I don't think that people are very likely to need to turn archiving on
> > > > and off on-the-fly. Your proposed solution introduces a great deal of
> > > > complexity (and risk of future bugs-of-omission, to say nothing of race
> > > > conditions) to solve a non-problem. We have better things to be doing
> > > > with our development time.
> > >
> > > It's certainly a quicker fix. Unless others object, I'll set
> > > archive_command to only be changeable at server startup.
> > >
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