Re: Overhauling GUCS

On Jun 5, 2008, at 23:08, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> What comments do we consider machine-generated? Just the ones used
> to comment out settings, like
>
> #shared_buffers = 32MB
>
> or something else?

Those and documentation comments.

> If the automatic tool lets alone all other kind of comments, I think
> we're fine. In fact, it wouldn't necessarily need to modify those
> comments either, it could simply add a new setting line below that:
>
> #shared_buffers = 32MB
> shared_buffers = 1024MB

Well, we've been talking about having varying levels of documentation
in the comments of the file based on the options passed to the
configuration program. I think that these are the primary concern,
though Greg, please do correct me if I'm mistaken.

> For extra safety, it could comment out old settings, perhaps with
> something like this:
>
> #shared_buffers = 32MB
> #shared_buffers = 1024MB # commented out by wizard on 2008-06-05
> shared_buffers = 2048MB
>
> This would preserve a full change history in the file. It would
> become quite messy after a lo of changes, of course, but a user can
> trim the history by hand if he wants to.

I guess that could be a feature. Personally, I use a vcs system for
that.

Best,

David