On 2013-08-02 08:41:09 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Perhaps having the file be a heap file instead of anything a sysadmin
> can be asked to go hack would also make it more clear that this is an
> internal PG file which is to be managed only through PG and stop all
> this arguing about how "oh, they can just fix it by twiddling things in
> $PGDATA" is considered by some to be an acceptable solution.  Heck, it'd
> also keep the number of files down while allowing more fine-grained
> modifications and writes (iow, we wouldn't have to rewrite the whole
> file every time..).

Crash recovery & PGC_SIGHUP|PGC_POSTMASTER…

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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