Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de> writes:
>> There's been various discussions in the past about making this behavior
>> less non-intuitive, but nothing's been settled on ...
> So what about deciding now that it should be changed. What are the reasons
> for why it should be kept as it is?
1. Backwards compatibility.
2. A comment is a comment.
> - other unix daemons reset their values to defaults before reading
> conffiles
Examples please?
regards, tom lane