Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of GUC units code

Hannu Krosing escribió:
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 09:10 -0700, Joshua Drake wrote:

> > If we are going to make sweeping statements (anyone on this thread)
> > about user-hostile and most people, then we better define what those
> > mean. 
> 
> Not user-hostile but rather hostile to an overworked DBA, who tries to
> change some .conf param from 1MB to 512KB at 3AM to save an overloaded
> server and then suddenly the server won't start anymore.

I think the energy wasted in this discussion would be better spent in
working a the check-the-config-file feature.  That would equally solve
this problem, as well as many others.

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