Re: GUCs that need restart

Jim Nasby wrote:
> For archive_mode you should check the archives; where was discussion on exactly why we can only enable archiving on
restart.That GUC was added specifically so that archive_command didn't require a restart
 

I linked the most relevant bits from the archives into 
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ClusterFeatures#Start.2Fstop_archiving_at_runtime

This item was pretty high up on the last round of hacker polling at the 
clustering meeting that list came out of.  But since it's strictly 
convenient rather than a new feature, it's hard to justify working on, 
given the fixed pool of people who feel comfortable working on this code.

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