Re: Open items

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>> It`s not a beta-blocker, but I still need to fix the postgresql.conf.sample
>> file to not use all those commented-out values. Unfortunately, I have not
>> had time to do this. If someone could take of this, it would be most
>> appreciated. See Tom`s notes on some issues involved:
>>
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2004-07/msg00178.php
>>
>> Another reason to make sure this makes it into 8.0 is so that the new
>> group of users does not see the format of the file change from 8.0 to 8.1,
>> but can start right away with the more intuitive format.
> This is too involved a change at this stage.  I don't expect
> postgresql.conf to change any more from 7.4->8.0 than from 8.0->8.1 so I
> don't see why this is more critical for this release, and it has too
> many open issues.
Tom's post linked above seems to indicate it might be accepted, but I
will certainly yield to Core's decision. I'm still hoping someone else
will step up to the plate and tackle this: I feel that it would be
nice not to confuse a whole new group of users with commented-out
defaults which may or may not have a relation to the actual setttings. :)
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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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