Re: [PATCH] Don't bail with legitimate -N/-B options

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Anybody know *why* Gentoo does such a thing? Having shared buffers at
> the very lowest possible boundary just seems counterproductive. Plus,
> the normal way to set these things would be in postgresql.conf, why
> override them on the commandline?
>
> It's not the first time I've seen people complain about this, it'd be
> good to know why.
It's been brought up on the Gentoo bugzilla
(http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206725) so hopefully something
will come of that.

> Those are not comments on the actual patch, of course. For that one,
> it looks to me like it's the wrong fix. I don't think we should be
> adding to shared buffers like that - if somebody asked for a specific
> value they should get that. But in that case the error message needs
> to be changed, since it's misleading.
If we follow that logic, there shouldn't be an error message at all. ;-)

Cheers,
Andreas