Re: Parsing config files in a directory - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Parsing config files in a directory
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Msg-id 21613.1256508390@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Parsing config files in a directory  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I don't really understand this.  What usage habits do we need to
> change?

The assumption that it's okay to document what you've done with
something like
# work_mem = '1GB'# changed to give saner behavior 10/25/08work_mem = '10MB'

> The problem is that people expect that the setting for some
> GUC is going to be near the comment block that describes that GUC.

Or more generally, that the comments they've put next to a setting
are going to stay next to it.  Once again: this isn't about the
instructions.
        regards, tom lane


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