Re: [PATCH] Stop ALTER SYSTEM from making bad assumptions

Greetings,

* Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 10:21 AM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> > Just to be clear, I brought up this exact concern back in *November*:
> >
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20181127153405.GX3415%40tamriel.snowman.net
> >
> > And now because this was pushed forward and the concerns that I raised
> > ignored, we're having to deal with this towards the end of the release
> > cycle instead of during normal development.
>
> I disagree.

It's unclear what you're disagreeing with here as the below response
doesn't seem to discuss the question about if these issues were brought
up and pointed out previously, nor about if I was the one who raised
them, nor about if we're towards the end of the release cycle.

> My analysis is that you're blocking a straightforward bug
> fix because we're not prepared to redesign the world to match your
> expectations. The actual point of controversy at the moment, as I
> understand it, is this: if the backend, while rewriting
> postgresql.auto.conf, discovers that it contains duplicates, should we
> (a) give a WARNING or (b) not?

No, that isn't the point of the controversy nor does it relate, at all,
to what you quoted above, so I don't think there's much value in
responding to the discussion about WARNING or not that you put together
below.

Thanks,

Stephen