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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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The postgresql.conf file also supports an include directive. This allows the postgresql.conf file to reference other files, which can then reference other files, and so on. That may help you organize your parameter settings better, if you don't make it too complicated.

For more on reloading, see the Reloading the server configuration files recipe in Chapter 4, Server Control.

 If you are working with PostgreSQL version 9.4 or later, you can change the values stored in the parameter files directly from your session, with syntax such as the following:

ALTER SYSTEM SET shared_buffers = '1GB';

This command will not actually edit postgresql.conf. Instead, it writes the new setting to another file named postgresql.auto.conf. The effect ...

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