| From: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
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| To: | Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Roberto Scattini <roberto(dot)scattini(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_xlog and standby - SOLVED |
| Date: | 2008-01-24 18:30:25 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.64.0801241327190.1116@westnet.com |
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Erik Jones wrote:
> To disable archiving, set archive_command="", commenting it out won't
> change it...However, commenting a config is not necessarily equivalent
> to disabling something.
This is actually a problem that is corrected in the upcoming 8.3 release.
>From those release notes:
"Commenting out a parameter in postgresql.conf now causes it to revert to
its default value. [In 8.2 and earlier releases] commenting out an entry
left the parameter's value unchanged until the next server restart."
This is probably why Roberto didn't see the expected behavior until a
server restart.
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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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