Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have developed a patch that writes a warning in the server log when a user
> changes a restart-only parameter in the configuration file and does a reload.
> The problem is that you will see this warning once for each running server
> process (unless you sent the HUP signal only to a specific process). Do
> people feel that the warning should only be written once by the postmaster
> process?
Yes. There is precedent already, see the existing code in
ProcessConfigFile:
/*
* To avoid cluttering the log, only the postmaster bleats loudly
* about problems with the config file.
*/
elevel = IsUnderPostmaster ? DEBUG2 : LOG;
regards, tom lane
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