From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
cc: Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>,
        Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
        Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>,
        Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop ALTER SYSTEM from making bad assumptions
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Comments: In-reply-to Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> In hopes of moving this along, I've pushed Ian's last code change,
>> as there seems to be no real argument about that anymore.
>> 
>> As for the doc changes, how about the attached revision of what
>> I wrote previously?  It gives some passing mention to what ALTER
>> SYSTEM will do, without belaboring it or going into things that
>> are really implementation details.

> It's certainly better than what we have now.

Hearing no other comments, I've pushed that and marked this issue closed.

			regards, tom lane