On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 09:44:42AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> writes: > > When looking at the nearby suggestion to add deprecation comment for md5 in > > the > > .conf.sample, I happened to notice that autovacuum_worker_slots isn't > > commented > > out it the sample file. > > > AFAIK all GUCs in the sample file should be set to their defaults and left > > commented out. > > Yes, that is surely a bug. It should be fixed and back-patched.
Yes, but again, be aware that only new initdb's will see this change. People doing a diff against an old postgresql.conf file and a new initdb's postgresql.conf.sample in the same major release might see this change and think they did it. -- Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.
