Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> You could argue that this is *weird* (why does reading pg_file_settings
> set a flag in global state?) ... but that weirdness is not something
> this patch is introducing.
Ugh. I think this patch is likely to create more problems than it fixes.
We should be looking to get rid of that flag, not make its behavior even
more complex.
regards, tom lane