Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-21 Thread Thom Brown
On 21 June 2013 05:47, Gurjeet Singh gurj...@singh.im wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.netwrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: Should we have a way of

[HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Thom Brown
Hi, I've noticed that there's no easy way of checking which settings will change if the config is reloaded, and I think not being able to do this can cause some unfortunate problems. For example, a customer went to change their configuration, just setting log_autovacuum_min_duration to about 20

Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Thom Brown t...@linux.com wrote: Hi, I've noticed that there's no easy way of checking which settings will change if the config is reloaded, and I think not being able to do this can cause some unfortunate problems. For example, a customer went to change

Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Thom Brown t...@linux.com wrote: Hi, I've noticed that there's no easy way of checking which settings will change if the config is reloaded, and I think not being able to do this can cause some unfortunate problems. For example, a customer went to change

Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Thom Brown
On 20 June 2013 13:16, Pavan Deolasee pavan.deola...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Thom Brown t...@linux.com wrote: Hi, I've noticed that there's no easy way of checking which settings will change if the config is reloaded, and I think not being able to do this can

Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: Should we have a way of previewing changes that would be applied if we reloaded/restarted the server? Yes, we should. +1 This would go well with something I started working on some time ago (but haven't actually gotten far on at all), which is

Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: Should we have a way of previewing changes that would be applied if we reloaded/restarted the server? Yes, we should. +1 This would go well with something I started

Re: [HACKERS] Config reload/restart preview

2013-06-20 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.netwrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: Should we have a way of previewing changes that would be applied if we reloaded/restarted