Re: buildfarm failures on smew and anole

On 2013-10-16 09:44:32 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > On 2013-10-16 09:35:46 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> Gah.  I fixed one instance of that problem in test_config_settings(),
> >> but missed the other.
> >
> > Maybe it'd be better to default to none, just as max_connections
> > defaults to 1 and shared_buffers to 16? As we write out the value in the
> > config file, everything should still continue to work.
> 
> Hmm, possibly.  But how would we document that?  It seems strange to
> say that the default is none, but the actual setting probably won't be
> none on your system because we hack up postgresql.conf.
> shared_buffers pretty much just glosses over the distinction between
> "default" and "what you probably have configured", but I'm not sure
> that's actually great policy.

I can't remember somebody actually being confused by that with s_b or
max_connections. So maybe it's just ok not to document it. But yes, I
can't come up with a succinct description of that behaviour either.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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