Re: Open items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hrmmm, stupid question here, but why not just change hte postgresql.conf 
to be those variables that *are* changed from the default, with a simple 
comment pointing to the documention for the rest?  the benefit of that is 
that at lesat the documentation has fuller descriptions of what the 
variables are for ...

*that* could be easily done after beta ...

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

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> Is this the proper item description?
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>     * Remove comments on postgresql.conf variables
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>       By removing comments we prevent the confusion that commenting a line
>       returns a modified value to its default, which it does not.
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>> Added to TODO:
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>>     * Remove comments on postgresql.conf variables
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>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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>>>>>> It`s not a beta-blocker, but I still need to fix the postgresql.conf.sample
>>>>>> file to not use all those commented-out values. Unfortunately, I have not
>>>>>> had time to do this. If someone could take of this, it would be most
>>>>>> appreciated. See Tom`s notes on some issues involved:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2004-07/msg00178.php
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Another reason to make sure this makes it into 8.0 is so that the new
>>>>>> group of users does not see the format of the file change from 8.0 to 8.1,
>>>>>> but can start right away with the more intuitive format.
>>>>
>>>>> This is too involved a change at this stage.  I don't expect
>>>>> postgresql.conf to change any more from 7.4->8.0 than from 8.0->8.1 so I
>>>>> don't see why this is more critical for this release, and it has too
>>>>> many open issues.
>>>>
>>>> Tom's post linked above seems to indicate it might be accepted, but I
>>>> will certainly yield to Core's decision. I'm still hoping someone else
>>>> will step up to the plate and tackle this: I feel that it would be
>>>> nice not to confuse a whole new group of users with commented-out
>>>> defaults which may or may not have a relation to the actual setttings. :)
>>>
>>> Well, I haven't seen any of the research requested by Tom, and with beta
>>> a few days away, I don't see it happening in time.
>>>
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