From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:03:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add standard boilerplate sentence about when stats_temp_directory can be changed.
X-Git-Tag: REL8_4_BETA1~1043
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e36716a6534a393225d3c45fcbb85f75d017cad1;p=postgresql

Add standard boilerplate sentence about when stats_temp_directory can be changed.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 757ee2a3db..9d33918a3e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.189 2008/08/25 18:55:43 mha Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.190 2008/08/25 19:03:37 tgl Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter Id="runtime-config">
   <title>Server Configuration</title>
@@ -3414,13 +3414,16 @@ COPY postgres_log FROM '/full/path/to/logfile.csv' WITH csv;
       </indexterm>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-        Sets the directory to store temporary statistics data in. This can be a 
-        path relative to the data directory or an absolute path. The default is
-        <filename>pg_stat_tmp</filename>. Pointing this at a RAM based filesystem
-        will decrease physical I/O requirements and can lead to increased 
-        performance. If this parameter is changed when the system is running,
-		there is a small window of time until the new file has been written 
-		during which the statistics functions might return no information.
+        Sets the directory to store temporary statistics data in. This can be
+        a path relative to the data directory or an absolute path. The default
+        is <filename>pg_stat_tmp</filename>. Pointing this at a RAM based
+        filesystem will decrease physical I/O requirements and can lead to
+        improved performance.
+        This parameter can only be set in the <filename>postgresql.conf</>
+        file or on the server command line.
+        If this parameter is changed while the server is running, there is a
+        small window of time until the new statistics file has been written
+        during which the statistics functions might return no information.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>