On Jan 24, 2008 4:30 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Erik Jones wrote:
>
> > To disable archiving, set archive_command="", commenting it out won't
> > change it...However, commenting a config is not necessarily equivalent
> > to disabling something.
>
> This is actually a problem that is corrected in the upcoming 8.3 release.
> From those release notes:
>
> "Commenting out a parameter in postgresql.conf now causes it to revert to
> its default value. [In 8.2 and earlier releases] commenting out an entry
> left the parameter's value unchanged until the next server restart."
>
> This is probably why Roberto didn't see the expected behavior until a
> server restart.
>
in fact, googling for the problem i found those release notes that led
me to think that the restart was necessary...
:D
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Roberto Scattini
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