Re: Uncommenting .conf WAS: Open items

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Uncommenting .conf WAS: Open items
Date: 2004-08-06 16:39:02
Message-ID: 200408060939.02731.josh@agliodbs.com
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Bruce, etc:

> If you change shared_buffers to 2000, remove the comment and reload, the
> variable is now 2000. If you comment out the variable and reload again,
> it is still 2000, not the default.

And more than one person has been baffled and confused by this, including
several major contributors to our project. And we discussed this about 2
months ago and everyone on this list agreed that it should be changed; I'm
sorry it didn't make it into the TODO at that time.

I see this as a really minor change that will greatly improve the
comprehension of how to modify the .conf file. It's documentation, really,
and we won't be touching any code.

How about if I tackle this this weekend? I'd like to double-check the
organization of the new variables in the file, anyway.

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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