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

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 12:55 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Ah, got it.  So it seems like the correct behavior might be for
> ALTER SYSTEM to
> (a) run through the whole file and remove any conflicting lines;
> (b) append new setting at the end.

That is exactly the behavior for which I am arguing.  Stephen also
wants a warning, but I disagree, because the warning is totally
non-actionable.  It tells you that some tool, at some point in the
past, did something bad. You can't do anything about that, and you
wouldn't need to except for the arbitrary decision to label duplicate
lines as bad in the first place.

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