On Wed, 2024-04-10 at 10:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > 2024年4月10日(水) 21:40 Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > Why it does not give an error because the shared lib isn't there? > > > ALTER SYSTEM is a way of modifying the PostgreSQL configuration file > > via SQL; just as when you modify it manually, changes are not applied > > until you actually reload the configuration. > > See: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altersystem.html > > Even if you had issued a reload, you would not have noticed the > faulty setting without looking into the postmaster's log for > warning messages. The system wouldn't get in your face about it > until you did a postmaster restart. An alternative to looking at the log file is to SELECT * FROM pg_file_settings WHERE error IS NOT NULL; after you reload. Yours, Laurenz Albe
