>>The idea here is the when you comment something out, it should restore
>>its default. Right now it keeps the previously uncommented out value,
>>which confuses people.
>>
>>
>
>But the contrary position is that a comment is a comment, not something
>that should act to change the state of the postmaster.
>
>
Not in any conf I have ever seen. If I comment out a parameter
I expect that the parameter will either be disabled or set to the
default depending on the parameter.
#fsync = false
Should mean:
fsync = false
--
fsync = true
Should mean:
fsync = true
--
#fsync = true:
Should mean:
fsync = false
If false is the default value.
--
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>It's probably worth pointing out that there's not consensus about all
>of the TODO items, particularly not the ones Bruce has marked with
>question marks.
>
> regards, tom lane
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