Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > Another way might be something like > SET GLOBAL name = value > but that would make the command very dissimilar from the other ones, > even though their effects are closely related.
Yeah. I think it would also give people a wrong impression about when the setting would take effect, because existing variants of SET are immediate (for some value of immediate). And it would invite confusion with the write-the-config-file patch, which is going to end up using some syntax much like this one. I think we really want to use ALTER, though I agree none of the alternatives are great. Have you considered ALTER SYSTEM SET ... ? We'd talked about that in the context of the other patch, but it seems to fit much more naturally with this one. Or maybe ALTER GLOBAL SET or ALTER ALL SET. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers