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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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How to do it…

Your first thought is probably to look in postgresql.conf, which is the configuration file, described in detail in the Updating the parameter file recipe. That works, but only as long as there is only one parameter file. If there are two, then maybe you're reading the wrong file! How would you know? So, the cautious and accurate way is to not trust a text file, but to trust the server itself.

Moreover, you learned in the previous recipe, Changing parameters in your programs, that each parameter has a scope that determines when it can be set. Some parameters can be set through postgresql.conf, but others can be changed afterwards. So, the current values of configuration settings may have been subsequently changed.

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