Re: [9.4] Make full_page_writes only settable on server start?

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 15:42 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Although this is true, the administrator's estimate of whether that
>> guarantee is or is not provided might not be as consistent as the
>> hardware behavior itself.  I am generally of the feeling that having
>> to restart the server to change setting sucks, and while it surely
>> sucks less for this setting than some, mostly because few people
>> change this setting in the first place, I'm still not convinced that
>> this is moving in the right direction.

> I think code complexity matters quite a lot. If we can eliminate some
> complex code in a complex area, and all we give up is a feature with
> essentially no use case, that sounds like we're moving in the right
> direction to me.

Isn't this whole discussion academic in view of Andres' point?
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20130903121935.GB5783@awork2.anarazel.de
        regards, tom lane