On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 04:18:21PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On 2020-Jul-07, Amit Kapila wrote: > > > I don't think this is true. We seem to have introduced three new guc > > variables in a 9.3.3 minor release. > > Yeah, backporting GUCs is not a big deal. Sure, the GUC won't appear in > postgresql.conf files generated by initdb prior to the release that > introduces it. But users that need it can just edit their .confs and > add the appropriate line, or just do ALTER SYSTEM after the minor > upgrade. For people that don't need it, it would have a reasonable > default (probably work_mem, so that behavior doesn't change on the minor > upgrade).
I am creating a new thread to discuss the question raised by Alvaro of how many ALTER SYSTEM settings are lost during major upgrades. Do we properly document that users should migrate their postgresql.conf _and_ postgresql.auto.conf files during major upgrades? I personally never thought of this until now. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee
