"Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:15 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> It strikes me that allowing archive_command to be changed on the fly >> might not be such a good idea though, or at least it shouldn't be >> possible to flip it from empty to nonempty during live operation.
> I'd rather fix it the proposed way than force a restart. ISTM wrong to > have an availability feature cause downtime. I don't think that people are very likely to need to turn archiving on and off on-the-fly. Your proposed solution introduces a great deal of complexity (and risk of future bugs-of-omission, to say nothing of race conditions) to solve a non-problem. We have better things to be doing with our development time. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org