Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0BE413364DE for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:08:55 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 79541-03 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:08:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from cpoproxy2-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy2-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.39.38]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1C4E133655C for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:08:47 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail 13845 invoked by uid 0); 17 Dec 2010 18:08:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO host159.hostmonster.com) (74.220.207.159) by cpoproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 17 Dec 2010 18:08:45 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=timbira.com; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:X-Enigmail-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=dX/PTqC9zagi+ZLMDKtf4VcZ8FNeVdHPQvZejsPcmfkRTnibExkiHTZB8XBcaaB63E2bZcmOYQyZjjUw6MPrfY20vkOpkqjD02UeIqf57xWYaLLLbS8Abiq53yDSq4+D; Received: from [200.129.179.175] (helo=[172.16.5.79]) by host159.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTejV-0008KW-6k; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:08:45 -0700 Message-ID: <4D0BA728.9080301@timbira.com> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:08:40 -0300 From: Euler Taveira de Oliveira User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100328) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alvaro Herrera CC: Tom Lane , Josh Kupershmidt , pgsql-docs Subject: Re: explaining "context" column of pg_settings References: <17754.1292544709@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1292547747-sup-786@alvh.no-ip.org> In-Reply-To: <1292547747-sup-786@alvh.no-ip.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1651:host159.hostmonster.com:timbirac:timbira.com} {sentby:smtp auth 200.129.179.175 authed with euler@timbira.com} X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201012/22 X-Sequence-Number: 6258 Alvaro Herrera escreveu: > Perhaps we can replace the current "this setting requires a restart" > boilerplate with "this setting has context foo" in setting descriptions, > and have a pointer to wherever the description of each context is. > .. or even foo_param (integer) (restart) 'restart' is a link describing the context. When I'm reading the manual searching for a parameter description, sometimes it is not clear what is the context; in this case, I need to query pg_settings to figure out what I have to do to change that parameter. It would be fine if that information was easily available. -- Euler Taveira de Oliveira http://www.timbira.com/