Re: [PATCHES] Postgresql.conf Documentation change

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tom,
>
> > Right at the moment my feeling is that there are issues here that are
> > considerably more subtle than we realized, and rather than risk creating
> > unforeseen problems, we ought to bounce the whole issue back to the TODO
> > list for 8.1.
>
> Agreed. I will submit a new patch that simply adds a cautionary note to
> postgresql.conf explaining the re-commenting issue.

Yes, agreed. Who knows what other issues we might hit if we went ahead,
and the confusion we would cause for beta testers who already tested
beta1.

Update TODO item:

* Un-comment all variables in postgresql.conf

By not showing commented-out variables, we discourage people from
thinking that re-commenting a variable returns it to its default.
Another option is to allow commented values to return to their
default values.

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