Re: pg_xlog and standby - SOLVED

From: "Roberto Scattini" <roberto(dot)scattini(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Cc: "Erik Jones" <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_xlog and standby - SOLVED
Date: 2008-01-25 00:19:17
Message-ID: d70926850801241619v286c9c01u8a744ffaadaf7d89@mail.gmail.com
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On Jan 24, 2008 4:30 PM, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Erik Jones wrote:
>
> > To disable archiving, set archive_command="", commenting it out won't
> > change it...However, commenting a config is not necessarily equivalent
> > to disabling something.
>
> This is actually a problem that is corrected in the upcoming 8.3 release.
> From those release notes:
>
> "Commenting out a parameter in postgresql.conf now causes it to revert to
> its default value. [In 8.2 and earlier releases] commenting out an entry
> left the parameter's value unchanged until the next server restart."
>
> This is probably why Roberto didn't see the expected behavior until a
> server restart.
>

in fact, googling for the problem i found those release notes that led
me to think that the restart was necessary...
:D

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