Re: bgwriter_lru_maxpages limits in PG 10 sample conf

On 2019-Mar-04, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:28:44AM +0300, Sergei Kornilov wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > postgresql.conf.sample was changed recently in REL_10_STABLE (commit ab1d9f066aee4f9b81abde6136771debe0191ae8)
> > So config will be changed in next minor release anyway. We have another reason to not fix bgwriter_lru_maxpages comment?
>
> Frankly, I was surprised postgresql.conf.sample was changed in a back
> branch since it will cause people who diff $PGDATA/postgresql.conf with
> share/postgresql.conf.sample to see differences they didn't make.

I think the set of people that execute diffs of their production conf
file against the sample file to be pretty small -- maybe even empty. If
you're really interested in knowing the changes you've done, you're more
likely to use a version control system on the file anyway.

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