From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Open items |
Date: | 2004-08-06 15:29:00 |
Message-ID: | 20040806122734.I80911@ganymede.hub.org |
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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:
>
> Is this the proper item description?
>
> * Remove comments on postgresql.conf variables
>
> 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:
>>
>> Added to TODO:
>>
>> * 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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