Bruce, etc:
> If you change shared_buffers to 2000, remove the comment and reload, the
> variable is now 2000. If you comment out the variable and reload again,
> it is still 2000, not the default.
And more than one person has been baffled and confused by this, including
several major contributors to our project. And we discussed this about 2
months ago and everyone on this list agreed that it should be changed; I'm
sorry it didn't make it into the TODO at that time.
I see this as a really minor change that will greatly improve the
comprehension of how to modify the .conf file. It's documentation, really,
and we won't be touching any code.
How about if I tackle this this weekend? I'd like to double-check the
organization of the new variables in the file, anyway.
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco