Re: Open items

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>> Hrmmm, stupid question here, but why not just change hte postgresql.conf
>> to be those variables that *are* changed from the default, with a simple
>> comment pointing to the documention for the rest? the benefit of that is
>> that at lesat the documentation has fuller descriptions of what the
>> variables are for ...
>>
>> *that* could be easily done after beta ...
>
> Not sure why removing the comments is seen as good myself, but I think
> the idea was that if you comment out something and change the default,
> you assume that commenting it out returns it to the default, though it
> does not.

'k, now you've totally confused me ... if you comment something out, and
it doesn't return to the default, where does it go to?

my understanding was that the 'beef' was that the defaults that are
displayed on each of the variables in postgresql.conf file don't
necessarily match the defaults compiled into the backend ... which, I
*think* is what you meant in the above? :)

Right now, if you install postgresql, there are various variables
added/set in the postgresql.conf file (notably the stuff that Tom did with
the shared memory buffer) ... with the rest being "what could be the
default, but may not be" for the commented out variables ... my suggestion
is to remove the commented out variables altogether, and change the file
to something like:

#
# for a complete list of GUC variables, see ...
#
<put 'live/set' variables here>

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