Gaetano Mendola wrote:
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> | Gaetano Mendola wrote:
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> |>Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> |> > 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.
> |>
> |>I don't remember the behaviour but tell me what happen if
> |>I comment out a value changing the value. Kill UP the postmater.
> |>Recommenting that value and now re killing the postmaster.
> |>
> |>I believe that postmaster will not run with the default value.
> |>Who will look the configuration file will not understand the right
> |>reality.
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> |
> | If you comment a variable in postgresql.conf, it will use the
> | default value.
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> That's not true at least with the version 7.4.2.
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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.
Oh, sorry, you are right. Not sure if this is a bug or not.
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