OK, additional sentence removed.
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > OK, TODO updated:
> > o %Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
> > to defaults
>
> > Currently, if a variable is commented out, it keeps the
> > previous uncommented value until a server restarted.
> > Logically, a reload should set the same values as a
> > server restart.
>
> That all sounds nice, but unless you intend to fix all the constraints
> that force some values to be set-only-at-postmaster-start, it's never
> going to be possible to promise that a reload has the same effect as
> restarting the server. We could do this for values that are not
> PGC_POSTMASTER, but the argument given above for doing it is bogus.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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