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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>,
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Subject: Re: initdb's -c option behaves wrong way?
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> Hmm, how about raising an error if multiple options are given targetting
> the same GUC?

I don't see any reason to do that.  The underlying configuration
files don't complain about duplicate entries, they just take the
last setting.

			regards, tom lane