Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> writes:
>> #checkpoint_flush_after = 0 # 0 disables,
>> # default is 256kB on linux, 0 otherwise
>> I find this pretty confusing, because for all other GUCs in the file, the
>> commented-out value is the default one. In this case that would mean "0",
>> disabling the flushing.
> Although I understand the issue, I'm not sure about -1 as a special value
> to mean the default.
Agreed --- I think that's making things more confusing not less.
What we do in some similar cases is put the burden on initdb to fill in
the correct value by modifying postgresql.conf.sample appropriately.
It seems like that could be done easily here too. And it'd be a
back-patchable fix.
regards, tom lane