Thread: BUG #15659: missing comment "change requires restart" in postgresql.conf for parameter "data_sync_retry"

The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference:      15659
Logged by:          Thomas Poty
Email address:      thomas.poty@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 10.7
Operating system:   CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
Description:

In postgresql.conf, the mention of a required restart is missing for
"data_sync_retry" parameter :
- in the $PGDATA/postgresql.conf after an initdb
- in /usr/pgsql-10/share/postgresql.conf.sample

What I get :

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# ERROR HANDLING
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#exit_on_error = off            # terminate session on any error?
#restart_after_crash = on       # reinitialize after backend crash?
#data_sync_retry = off          # retry or panic on failure to fsync data?


#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

What I should have :

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# ERROR HANDLING
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#exit_on_error = off            # terminate session on any error?
#restart_after_crash = on       # reinitialize after backend crash?
#data_sync_retry = off          # retry or panic on failure to fsync data?
                                            # (change requires restart)


#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Information :

OS : 
CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
Linux 3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 25 20:13:58 UTC 2018 x86_64
x86_64 GNU/Linux

PostgreSQL version:
PostgreSQL 10.7 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623
(Red Hat 4.8.5-36), 64-bit

PostgreSQL package installed :
https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/10/redhat/rhel-7.4-x86_64/postgresql10-10.7-2PGDG.rhel7.x86_64.rpm

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 07:24:39AM +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> In postgresql.conf, the mention of a required restart is missing for
> "data_sync_retry" parameter :
> - in the $PGDATA/postgresql.conf after an initdb
> - in /usr/pgsql-10/share/postgresql.conf.sample

You are right.  I have noticed at the same time that the docs are
forgetting to mention the same and that the 80-character-limit was not
really respected, so fixed the whole and committed.  There are other
places where that limit is not respected in postgresql.conf.sample,
particularly for the new recovery parameters...  But well...

Thanks for the report!
--
Michael