I suggest that the following patch be applied. It adds a few more comments
to postgresql.conf.
(I always forget what the magic numbers 0 through 2 means for the "syslog"
option.)
By the way: The "virtual_host" parameter is a bad name for that particular
option, I think. "Virtual host" signals that PostgreSQL will behave
differently according to which IP address it's contacted (like Apache's
virtual host support which makes the web-server serve different sites
according to different criteria). A better word for the options would be
"tcpip_listen_addr" or something like that.
diff -ur pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample troels-pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
--- pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample 2003-07-27 20:14:50.000000000 +0200
+++ troels-pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample 2003-07-27 20:24:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
#unix_socket_directory = ''
#unix_socket_group = ''
#unix_socket_permissions = 0777 # octal
-#virtual_host = ''
+#virtual_host = '' # what interface to listen on; defaults to any
#rendezvous_name = '' # defaults to the computer name
# - Security & Authentication -
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
# - Syslog -
-#syslog = 0 # range 0-2
+#syslog = 0 # range 0-2; 0=stdout; 1=both; 2=syslog
#syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
#syslog_ident = 'postgres'
--
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