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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2001-09-30 20:16:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2001-09-30 20:16:21 +0000 |
| commit | f00da6d841ad3a506aaa7b8d532fd7b5a4a8f247 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c92dd40a20705a8287ae114c76f8fea3286d0a8 /doc/src | |
| parent | e43d51fddcf52e70bc66903aa53c72c8ae39cb2b (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-f00da6d841ad3a506aaa7b8d532fd7b5a4a8f247.tar.gz postgresql-f00da6d841ad3a506aaa7b8d532fd7b5a4a8f247.zip | |
Allow the postmaster to accept changes in PGC_BACKEND GUC variables
from the config file, so that these changes will propagate to backends
started later. Already-started backends continue to ignore changes
in these variables.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml index 6afdd9c9637..19ed4a45c84 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.86 2001/09/30 18:57:45 tgl Exp $ +$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.87 2001/09/30 20:16:21 tgl Exp $ --> <Chapter Id="runtime"> @@ -845,10 +845,11 @@ env PGOPTIONS='-c geqo=off' psql <term><varname>LOG_CONNECTIONS</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term> <listitem> <para> - Prints a line informing about each successful connection to + Prints a line informing about each successful connection in the server log. This is off by default, although it is probably very useful. This option can only be set at server - start. + start or in the <filename>postgresql.conf</filename> + configuration file. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -1223,7 +1224,7 @@ dynamic_library_path = '/usr/local/lib/postgresql:/home/my_project/lib:$libdir' <listitem> <para> Sets the maximum number of simultaneously open files in each server - process. The default is 1000. The limit actually used by the code + subprocess. The default is 1000. The limit actually used by the code is the smaller of this setting and the result of <literal>sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX)</literal>. Therefore, on systems where sysconf returns a reasonable limit, @@ -1233,7 +1234,10 @@ dynamic_library_path = '/usr/local/lib/postgresql:/home/my_project/lib:$libdir' processes all try to open that many files. If you find yourself seeing <quote>Too many open files</> failures, try reducing this setting. - This option can only be set at server start. + This option can only be set at server start or in the + <filename>postgresql.conf</filename> configuration file; + if changed in the configuration file, it only affects + subsequently-started server subprocesses. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |