Re: Defaults for GUC variables (was Re: pg_ctl reports

> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > Shouldn't it revert to the default value?
>
> No, not unless you think the postmaster should react to comments in the
> postgresql.conf file, which is rather against my idea of a comment.
>
> However, you're not the first to get burnt by this mis-assumption,
> so maybe we should do something about it.
>
> The low-tech solution to this would be to stop listing the default
> values as commented-out entries, but just make them ordinary uncommented
> entries. That way people who think "undoing my edit will revert the
> change" would be right.
>
> Or we could try to make it actually work the way you seem to be
> expecting. The only implementation I can think of is to reset GUC
> variables to defaults just before scanning the .conf file ...
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I have to say we never had any problems or misconception with
how it currently works, but if this has to be changed I'd rather
vote for the low-tech solution.

Mike.