Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> Should we perhaps change the behaviour of the backend to give a
> warning only for unknown settings in the startup packet?
It's not going to help, unless you first invent a time machine so
we can retroactively cause all PG servers that are already in the field
to behave that way.
> It doesn't
> seem beyond the realms of possibility that we might want to add
> something else in the future, and this will at least mean that in a
> few releases time it might be reasonably safe to do so.
This might be a good argument for changing that going forward, but
it will be *years* before we can rely on it for anything.
regards, tom lane