On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > The reasons for this are basically all historical and we are trying to > get rid of it (by moving these settings to postgresql.conf, mostly). So > I don't think we need to spend a lot of time rationalizing this at this > point.
Yeah, there are as well parameters that could get removed on the way, like hot_standby for example. Most deployments don't use it to off these days, and in Postgres 10 this moves makes even more sense as wal_level = replica maps to both "archive" and "hot_standby", but means the latter. -- Michael