Re: Defaults for GUC variables (was Re: pg_ctl reports - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Defaults for GUC variables (was Re: pg_ctl reports
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Msg-id 3F9DC565.6070400@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Defaults for GUC variables (was Re: pg_ctl reports succes when start fails)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> However, you're not the first to get burnt by this mis-assumption,
> so maybe we should do something about it.
> 
> The low-tech solution to this would be to stop listing the default
> values as commented-out entries, but just make them ordinary uncommented
> entries.  That way people who think "undoing my edit will revert the
> change" would be right.

I would be in favour of that way of doing things.  I have always found 
it weird that defaults were commented out...

Chris




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