Im trying to change postgres settings using the /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/postgresql file. Specifically the settings wal_level to miniaml or max_wal_senders to 10 in order to restart a broken postgres service, however even after changing the config file, it still outputs the same error message : " WAL streaming (max_wal_senders > 0) requires wal_level "replica" or "logical" "

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if anyone runs into a similar issue, the problem was that i initially changed the config from logical to minimal, however seems like performing that change doesnt alter the dependency max_wal_senders to minimal. Upon restarting postgres, the wal_level = minimal is set on an autoconfig file that runs upon start up which will conflict with the "max_wal_senders " on the normal config file. In order to run it we changed the autoconfig file to logical and postgres ran again