Re: A couple of postgresql.conf.sample discrepancies

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Aleksander Alekseev
<a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
>> Here's a script that reminds you about GUCs you forgot to put in
>> postgresql.conf.sample. It probably needs some work. Does this
>> already happen somewhere else? I guess not, because it found two
>> discrepancies:
>>
>> $ ./src/tools/check_sample_config.pl
>> enable_gathermerge appears in guc.c but not in postgresql.conf.sample
>> trace_recovery_messages appears in guc.c but not in postgresql.conf.sample
>
> I like the idea. However maybe it worth considering to turn it into a
> TAP test? Otherwise there is a good chance everybody will forget to run
> it. For similar reason I would advise to add this patch to the next
> commitfest.

Bonus points if the script can detect that a parameter's comment
forgets to include "(change requires restart)".
--
Michael