Re: Improving postgresql.conf

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Improving postgresql.conf
Date: 2004-06-15 23:36:51
Message-ID: ad7a52cb361e403d60c4b8a73934557a@biglumber.com
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> Try yourself, I did the experiment changing the cpu_tuple_cost and
> commenting out the cpu_tuple_cost, after sending the SIGHUP to
> postmaster the value remain: 0.005 that is not the default value at
> all.

Ducking the added documentation discussion for a minute, I think we
can agree that the commented-default concept is at the least confusing,
at the most broken.

> I understand your points below. However, the group has weighed in the
> direction of clearly showing non-default values and not duplicating
> documentation. We can change that, but you will need more folks
> agreeing with your direction.

How do we do determine this? Perhaps a reasoned discussion on hackers?

I'll start, by putting forth the proposal that the default-comment
behavior does more harm than good because it is confusing and broken,
and should be scrapped in favor of a simple "what you see is what you get"
behavior, just like every other configuration file.

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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