Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-06-19 Thread Fujii Masao
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: At 2014-06-18 12:55:36 +0900, masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: Also I'm thinking to backpatch this to 9.4 because this is a bugfix rather than new feature. That sounds reasonable, thanks. Committed! Regards, --

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-06-19 Thread Amit Kapila
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: At 2014-06-18 12:55:36 +0900, masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: Also I'm thinking to backpatch this to 9.4 because this is a bugfix rather

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-06-17 Thread Fujii Masao
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: At 2014-06-17 09:49:35 +0530, amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote: By above do you mean that the patch should allow GUC_NOT_IN_SAMPLE or something else, if earlier then I have removed it as per comment from Fujji-san.

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-06-17 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2014-06-18 12:55:36 +0900, masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: Also I'm thinking to backpatch this to 9.4 because this is a bugfix rather than new feature. That sounds reasonable, thanks. -- Abhijit -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-06-16 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Amit Kapila 2014-06-16 CAA4eK1++wcFswhzH=92qiQFB=C0_Uy=mreadvhzxdrf3jow...@mail.gmail.com Developer options are mainly for debugging information or might help in one of the situations, so I thought somebody might not want them to be part of server configuration once they are set. We

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-06-16 Thread Fujii Masao
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Christoph Berg c...@df7cb.de wrote: Re: Amit Kapila 2014-06-13 CAA4eK1KLn1SmgVtd=5emabqxrrpveedtbuu94e-repmwxwv...@mail.gmail.com Agreed, I had mentioned in Notes section of

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-06-16 Thread Amit Kapila
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: Developer options are mainly for debugging information or might help in one of the situations, so I thought somebody might not want them to be part of server configuration once they are set. We already disallow

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-06-16 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2014-06-17 09:49:35 +0530, amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote: By above do you mean that the patch should allow GUC_NOT_IN_SAMPLE or something else, if earlier then I have removed it as per comment from Fujji-san. Yes, what you've done in v3 of the patch is what I meant. I've marked this as

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-06-15 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Amit Kapila 2014-06-13 CAA4eK1KLn1SmgVtd=5emabqxrrpveedtbuu94e-repmwxwv...@mail.gmail.com Agreed, I had mentioned in Notes section of document. Apart from that I had disallowed parameters that are excluded from postgresql.conf by initdb (Developer options) and they are recommended in user

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-06-15 Thread Amit Kapila
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Christoph Berg c...@df7cb.de wrote: Re: Amit Kapila 2014-06-13 CAA4eK1KLn1SmgVtd= 5emabqxrrpveedtbuu94e-repmwxwv...@mail.gmail.com Agreed, I had mentioned in Notes section of document. Apart from that I had disallowed parameters that are excluded from

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-06-13 Thread Amit Kapila
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: I think it's clearly *necessary* to forbid setting data_directory in

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-06-12 Thread Fujii Masao
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: I think it's clearly *necessary* to forbid setting data_directory in postgresql.auto.conf. The file is defined to be found in the data directory, so

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-06-11 Thread Amit Kapila
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: I think it's clearly *necessary* to forbid setting data_directory in postgresql.auto.conf. The file is defined to be found in the data

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-26 Thread Amit Kapila
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: I think it's clearly *necessary* to forbid setting data_directory in postgresql.auto.conf. The file is defined to be found in the data directory, so any such setting is circular logic by definition; no good can come of not

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com writes: In above scenario, I think you are expecting it should use /data2/postgresql.auto.conf and that is what you have mentioned up-thread. The way to handle it by server is just to forbid setting this parameter by Alter System or the user himself should

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com writes: This problem occurs because we don't have the value of data_directory set in postgresql.conf by the time we want to parse .auto.conf file during server start. The value of data_directory is only available after processing of config files. To fix

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: I think what probably has to happen is that ProcessConfigFile shouldn't be internally responsible for reading the auto file at all, but that we do that via two separate calls to ProcessConfigFile, one for the main file and then one for the auto file; and during initial startup,

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-11 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: I wrote: I think what probably has to happen is that ProcessConfigFile shouldn't be internally responsible for reading the auto file at all, but that we do that via two separate calls to ProcessConfigFile, one for the main

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-11 Thread Amit Kapila
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:50 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Since this bug would block testing of ALTER SYSTEM by a nontrivial population of users, I felt it was important to get it fixed before beta, so I went to try and fix it as above. It turns out that reading the two config

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-10 Thread Fujii Masao
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote: There is no harm in forbidding data_directory, but similarly we can

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-10 Thread Amit Kapila
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: ISTM that data_directory is in different situation from the other. That is, setting data_directory in postgresql.auto.conf is problematic whether its setting value is valid or invalid. Imagine the case where

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-09 Thread Fujii Masao
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Christoph Berg c...@df7cb.de wrote: Re: Andres Freund 2014-05-08 20140508145901.gb1...@awork2.anarazel.de Maybe this is nitpicking, but what happens when postgresql.auto.conf also

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-09 Thread Amit Kapila
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote: There is no harm in forbidding data_directory, but similarly we can imagine that people can set some very large values for some config variables

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-08 Thread Fujii Masao
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Christoph Berg c...@df7cb.de wrote: Hi, if you split configuration and data by setting data_directory, postgresql.auto.conf is writen to the data directory (/var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-08 Thread Amit Kapila
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote: This problem occurs because we don't have the value of data_directory set in postgresql.conf by the time we want to parse .auto.conf file during

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-08 Thread Stephen Frost
* Amit Kapila (amit.kapil...@gmail.com) wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: Should we just ignore such problematic setting in postgresql.auto.conf with warning message? Another way could be that we detect the same during server start (while

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-08 Thread Andres Freund
On 2014-05-08 22:21:43 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Christoph Berg c...@df7cb.de wrote: Hi, if you split configuration and data by setting data_directory, postgresql.auto.conf is

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-08 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Andres Freund 2014-05-08 20140508145901.gb1...@awork2.anarazel.de Maybe this is nitpicking, but what happens when postgresql.auto.conf also includes the setting of data_directory? This is possible because we can set data_directory via ALTER SYSTEM now. Should we just ignore such

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-08 Thread Amit Kapila
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Christoph Berg c...@df7cb.de wrote: Re: Andres Freund 2014-05-08 20140508145901.gb1...@awork2.anarazel.de Maybe this is nitpicking, but what happens when postgresql.auto.conf also includes the setting of data_directory? This is possible because we can set

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-07 Thread Amit Kapila
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Christoph Berg c...@df7cb.de wrote: Hi, if you split configuration and data by setting data_directory, postgresql.auto.conf is writen to the data directory (/var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main in Debian), but tried to be read from the etc directory

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-07 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Amit Kapila 2014-05-07 caa4ek1ktjkpvmnkos2gfnnh2zsko4ggdspswshjbq1cpu9e...@mail.gmail.com This problem occurs because we don't have the value of data_directory set in postgresql.conf by the time we want to parse .auto.conf file during server start. The value of data_directory is only

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.auto.conf read from wrong directory

2014-05-06 Thread Amit Kapila
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Christoph Berg c...@df7cb.de wrote: Hi, if you split configuration and data by setting data_directory, postgresql.auto.conf is writen to the data directory (/var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main in Debian), but tried to be read from the etc directory