Re: Open items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Open items
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Msg-id 200408061533.i76FXnU06104@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Open items  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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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.

I am unclear on your suggestion above.

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