Re: Converting postgresql.conf parameters to kilobytes

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> As long as we're messing around with PostgreSQL.conf, I propose that we 
> comment the file much more thouroughly -- in the style of Apache's httpd.conf
> and our own pg_hba.conf (though maybe not quite as long as hba).

ISTM we had decided that putting vast amounts of documentation into the
file comments was exactly the thing *not* to do.  It duplicates the SGML
documentation, thereby doubling the maintenance effort, to very little
purpose.  pg_hba's comments in particular had gotten quite out of hand
at one point, and have been pruned back severely.  Let's not follow the
same wheel of fate for postgresql.conf.
        regards, tom lane