Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>
>> The problem I've constantly run into with parsing and modifying settings
>> in a user-edited postgresql.conf file is that sometimes users do their
>> own chronological documentation:
>> [snip]
>>
>
> Yeah, those are good examples. It would be fairly easy to deal with a
> postgresql.conf file that's in a pristine state, but I can see that
> distinguishing "commented-out values" from actual comments is likely
> to be AI-complete :-(
>
>
How about if we provide for a magic value of 'default' for every
setting? So the model config file would move from lines like this:
#port = 5432 # (change requires restart)
to lines like this:
port = default # 5432 (change requires restart)
So we'd never uncomment a commented out line.
That way we could preserve comments, which would be a Good Thing (tm)
Then I think Tom's original proposal suitably modified would make sense.
cheers
andrew
