Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> The tool is using the output to help people create postgresql.conf.
>> The postmaster isn't running.
> But how do you alter postgresql.conf it it already exists but you don't
> know the current values?
You read postgresql.conf to extract the non-comment lines, and overlay
those on the default values you got from --help-config.
regards, tom lane