Re: SQL command to edit postgresql.conf, with comments

> Postgres has "COMMENT ON ..." SQL for various database objects and I
> assumed that said comments would be stored in the system catalog.

Oh.  Now that's an interesting perspective ... you're suggesting that we
take the comments and apply them as COMMENTS on the specific pg_settings?

That wouldn't solve the issues of ordering, or of comments in the file
not associated with a setting, but might be a good 80% solution.

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