Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > >>Jim C. Nasby wrote: >> >>>o Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them >>>to defaults >>> >>>This doesn't work already? > > >>The idea here is the when you comment something out, it should restore >>its default. Right now it keeps the previously uncommented out value, >>which confuses people. > > > But the contrary position is that a comment is a comment, not something > that should act to change the state of the postmaster. >
I understand what you mean, but to be fair, it's not the comment that is changing the behavior of the postmaster. Rather, it's the absence of a setting in the configuration file that would suggest using the default. It seems to me like a question of whether the configuration file should be treated as: a) the set of options for the postmaster b) a set of changes to the options for the postmaster The current behavior is (b), but many think (a) is more intuitive in the context of a configuration file. Perhaps (b) would be more intuitive if it were in the context of (for example) an admin tool that took options on standard input. Regards, Jeff Davis ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend