Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:05:34 +0300
From: Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Cannot turn track_counts on
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Tom Lane to Anton Shepelev:

> > I have a Postgres sever with the 'track_counts' setting
> > stuck in 'off'.  [...]
>
> I am fairly certain that there is nothing in core Postgres
> that would do that.  PGC_S_OVERRIDE is used to lock down
> the values of certain variables that shouldn't be allowed
> to change, but track_counts surely isn't one of those.
> And a quick grep through the code finds nothing applying
> PGC_S_OVERRIDE to it.

Thanks for checking it, Tom.

> What extensions do you have installed?

Nothing much:

  db=# show shared_preload_libraries;
   shared_preload_libraries
  ---------------------------
   online_analyze, plantuner

  db=# \dx
                   List of installed extensions
    Name   | Version |   Schema   |         Description
  ---------+---------+------------+------------------------------
   plpgsql | 1.0     | pg_catalog | PL/pgSQL procedural language

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